I may be a biased because almost all my products are Samsung, but for good reason (I have 2 19" Samsung monitors I purchased 11 years ago and neither of them have a single dead pixel. I use them daily). I have 3 Samsung TV's, an S8, a Note 3, a Note 4, a 6 Edge, 5 Tab 3's, and the list goes on. This sound system paired with my Samsung 60 inch flat screen and multiple other home entertainment devices is great for my bedroom. It's like having a movie theater in my house. I also love the wireless speakers for the rear. Running long wires is never fun. It's great for my computer, playing videos, video games, watching movies, or whatever else i throw at it. It feels like you are in the environment of whatever it is you turn on. I would highly recommend this system to anyone, and with the price you can't beat it. Samsung always has great products at great prices.

It has lots of snappy noises in the rewind to play and fast forward to play function... It says you need more memory to run a blu ray like Avatar all the functions such as pandora do not play correctly thru the surround sound I could keep going but I think you get the gist Roar A Stubsjoen

The auto update rendered the system unusable. Sent back for a refund. After update, system turned off, after 3 hours I manually turned on, discovered it corrupted my installed software, could not be reset. if its that sensitive, maybe update the system before you sell it.

The sound system is very good and sound great with a little tweaking. It was an easy task to mount the speakers to the wall but this isn't the most ideal method or placement. It would have been better to be able to get them off the wall a little but the only way to hang them is with a keyhole in the back. I have yet to find a bracket that would let me mount them in a better manner without running screws into the casing. A simple threaded attachment point would fix that entire issue. This unit is not top of the line with all the newest media type decoders but the ones it does have are quite good. It is most reasonable for the price and the location that I was placing it into. Good picture quality from the Blu-ray player with a simple HDMI cable of good quality. The ARC is also a help when paired to the TV with the same format. The sound from anything playing on the TV is routed back to the system which has much better sound than the TV speakers.

I'm no audiophile, but I do appreciate quality, balanced sound - and this system delivers. We purchased this system to replace another (not Samsung) system that finally bit the dust. We noticed an immediate difference between systems in that the Samsung system had much better, richer sound for the same output (1,000 W). Setup was easy, I probably spent more time taking the other system down than I did setting this one up. Sound input from our cable box was a breeze. We really like how quick the system itself functions (when a disc is inserted, it's loaded quickly, if you choose the netflix app, it loads quickly). Bluetooth connects really quickly to our iphones - making music for dinner or a get-together very simple to set up. The wireless surround speakers are also very convenient, because you don't have to trail speaker wires from your system across your room (To clarify, the surround [rear] speakers connect via speaker wires to a control box that can sit in the back of your room or behind your couch. The box plugs in [speakers aren't battery powered], but it receives a wireless surround signal from the system.) Lastly, the system and speakers look nice. The AV receiver/blu-ray player fits nicely in our TV cabinet where our other system fit. In fact, since it has a built-in blu-ray player, our cabinet nets extra space compared to before. We're only a few days into this system (August 2016), but we really like it. I will update the review if something changes, but so far we would buy this product again, and certainly recommend it as a budget all-in-one entertainment system.

I got this to get surround sound all the time with tv, but only get one speaker to function for regular TV. But, still happy!

We bought this to replace one and we love it, works beautifully, we really like that the back speakers are wireless!

easy to setup, and sounds awesome. my one complaint is that it doesn't allow you to adjust the sound settings while something is actually playing.

Center speaker and Right Rear speaker don't work. They expect me to package the brand new unit up and ship it to them for service. That IS NOT going to happen. So disappointed in Samsung. It's going back to the store.

We have all Samsung products in our house, but this HT-J5500 is an absolute nightmare. It will not update, it will not load Blue Rays, it opens and closes at will. Never again. Do not buy this product.