Music Studio 5 Wireless Smart Speaker

Most speakers treat their own shape as an afterthought. Samsung built the Music Studio 5 around one, and let the electronics follow.

The rounded silhouette is credited on Samsung's own product page to Bouroullec, the French design studio, and it gives the HW-LS50H a form that reads as a sculptural object rather than a black box meant to disappear under a shelf. Underneath that shape sit a built-in woofer and front-firing tweeters, tuned to fill a room with depth rather than throw sound in a single direction. The speaker decodes Dolby Atmos Music, Dolby Atmos, 5.1 channel mixes and Dolby Digital Plus, so a source mixed for surround sound still renders with height and width cues instead of folding down to plain stereo. Paired with a compatible Samsung television, Q-Symphony lets the TV's own speakers join in, widening the soundstage without adding another box to the room.

Streaming runs over Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 6.0, with AirPlay, Spotify Connect, Tidal Connect and Google Cast all supported natively, alongside Alexa and Google Home for voice control. A single optical input covers whatever still needs a cable, and the file decoding stretches to FLAC, ALAC and AIFF as well as the usual MP3 and AAC, so a lossless library plays back without a workaround. The SmartThings app handles setup and day to day control.

It is a WiFi speaker built to be looked at as much as listened to, and Samsung's own spec sheet backs that shape up with enough audio format support to match.