Good Picture for the price but poor sound quality
926768
Purchased the LED50B45RQ in June of 2014 for $400. For that price I think the picture is quite good. Nice brightness and contrast with crisp picture detail. But as you will find on other website reviews the sound quality from the internal speakers is poor. There is very little bass or treble response even with the equalizer settings at max. I had expected that so connected a sound bar to the TV using the headphone jack. I did not use the TV's digital coax audio out since the sound bar only had optical (TOSLINK) inputs and I wanted the TV remote to control the sound bar volume. Well there was some disappointment with this connection. The background low frequency hum from the headphone jack is significant. This is purely from the TV electronics since I removed all the TV inputs and muted the TV volume and the hum was still there. It even occurs using straight headphones. If you have decent low end response on your sound bar the hum will be very noticeable. The only short term fix I had was to turn down the bass response on the sound bar (to reduce the background hum), then increase the bass response on the TV equalizer to compensate. Next step is to get a coax digital to TOSLINK converter and not use the headphone jack.  So the product lost one star for the headphone background hum and 1 star for no TOSLINK. But still a good deal for the price.
4284744
Picture is great for the size but the sound is horrible!  It doesn't matter how much you turn up the volume the sound is tinny, faint and all around bad.
884749
Beautiful picture and a good screen for the money.
True the base does suck but not as much as the sound.
If you want good sound, you will NOT like the rear-facing WEAK speakers.
1818921
The image is OK but the sound is very weak. I decided to buy an additional sound bar for this TV to compensate for this as well. The software tends to crash once in a while, causing a "reboot" of the TV. I experience this for example when I watch streaming video and there are issues with the network. Generally, for a "Smart TV" they could have used a faster processor. Many commands take long until you see a reaction on the screen. Sony already had better KDL in the past....
4720734
everything works fine except sound, its is poor. You will need external speakers for sure. Good kitchen TV, good value.
159435
Great picture, but I can't figure out what's up with the sound quality. It's total crap from some inputs. Luckily, we have external amp/speakers and just run most audio straight to those without going through the TV.
4651378
Although the picture quality is good, the volume is very poor!  Even after going to the highest setting it still isn't loud enough at times I have to go through my surround sound to hear it loud enough.  This does not happen on my two daughter's t.v.'s!  My two daughters both have Samsung HD tv's and they never have a problem with the sound, it's always loud enough without ever going to the highest setting.
853913
The picture is great, set up was easy but the audio is HORRIBLE. Constant clicking static in a silent room, not super fun to listen to. Should have paid more attention to other reviewers who pointed this out..
3277456
Good picture on player, great picture on second unit but sound is terrible on both units.  Full volume is barely audible in the car.  Headphones help but at almost $200, the sound should be much better.  Unit returned after first use in vehicle.  Try something else.
4250728
The picture is great the sound is awful! I had to buy additional speakers. But it does the job we use it in our yard porch and when we go camping the kids love it.
3949272
TV works fine. Nothing spectacular. It's my first digital flat screen TV, so I was pretty happy to discover it could be used with my computer's HDMI output and had a built in WiFi feature that lets you watch YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, etc, directly using your home WiFi.

Main downside to this unit is the sound quality . The speakers are not very good. I attached an extra set of computer speakers I had, which helped, but the set was tipped over by the cat and since then the external speakers don't work with it. The base is not real stable. Also, like most LED screens the screen surface is susceptible to scratches.
2268671
I'm not sure if the TV's sound card is defective or just cheap because using the headphone jack produces distorted sound even at low volumes.
Using the TV's RCA audio outs gives clear sound but then you can't control it with the TV's volume setting.
The picture is great for how cheap the TV is.
3974703
Set up was easy, but the picture qualitywas just ok.  The sound quality was awful.  I bought this tv for my mother, she lives in a park model home in the summer.  I had the sound turned up to 98 and we could hear it if nothing else was on.  I would not buy this again.  Why is the speaker in the back? Makes no sense.
2240371
I just purchased a Samsung LN22A330 22-inch LCD TV.  As other reviewers noted, the sound quality is poor, no, make that annoying!  If you raise the volume more than 30%, the low tones start to rattle and garble.  Not a good feature for Samsung.  I'm definitely disappointed with the poor sound quality; will probably have to attach speakers to it for decent sound projection.  Other than that, I am very pleased with the rest of the set.
2786064
Got this over the holidays and set it up as a combination TV / computer monitor. The picture is very good with almost exactly 100% of the sRGB color space after calibration, and the support for 4:4:4 4K@60hz works fine.  I have two main complaints:

1) The sound quality is GARBAGE. I don't just mean the usual "the built in speakers are small and bad" complaint, but that there's a subtle background hiss on all audio. It's not noticeable in big loud scenes or music, but if there is a quiet scene of dialog I am watching at night when it is quiet, it's very noticeable and infuriating. If a quiet room is 30 decibels I'd estimate the hiss to be around 35 - subtle, but once you notice it you can't un-hear it. I'm ending up buying a sound bar (which I didn't want) because I don't trust that whatever local tech repair company Samsung has a contract with would properly diagnose / fix it. I might have just plugged in some computer speakers instead except:

1.5) NO AUX AUDIO OUTPUT. The only options are optical, HDMI-CEC, or (sigh) Bluetooth. Seriously?!

2) The UI is brain-dead. On one of the three HDMI inputs I have a Chromecast plugged in and powered by one of the USB ports. I went into the menu and manually changed the HDMI3 label to "Chromecast" which also magically changed the icon for it to a little Chromecast icon (hooray for undocumented features). However, since it's powered via the TV, whenever the TV turns off, the Chromecast also powers off, and whenever it turns on, the Chromecast has to boot back up. And guess what happens to the input setting when the TV doesn't detect something on HDMI3 right when it turns on? That's right, it forgets the "Chromecast" label and reverts back to just saying "HDMI3" every single time.  Hoo-freaking-ray.
359585
Picture isn't great. Sound quality and communication ability isn't great. Really there is better out there for less money. Plus you have to pay for storage.
805447
This television has a very good picture and enough inputs to allow me to do what I want to be able to do with it. Its main drawback is it has very poor audio quality as I expected. There simply is not enough room in the chassis of the TV to hold decent speakers. But for the price it was worth it.