Samsung Wireless Soundstand for 32-inch TVs HW-H600 (Black)

The HW-H600 (or SoundStand to its friends) is Samsung’s debut sound base – in other words, a speaker unit with a top surface strong enough to place your TV on it. This neat space-saving solution delivers a sound-quality upgrade without making you sacrifice any of your precious living-room space.

It’s a typically feature-rich affair, with plenty of sockets and sound modes to play with, but what really sets the HW-H600 apart from its rivals is its super-slim design.

At 35mm high, the HW-H600 is the slimmest sound base we’ve tested since the LG LAP340. That makes it remarkably discreet when placed under your TV – in fact, you hardly notice it’s there.

It’s one of the best-looking sound bases we’ve seen, too. The gorgeous all-black finish is sleek and contemporary, plus we love the way the brushed top surface curves into the sloping front panel. You can’t see any joins, just a single continuous panel. Underneath is a series of ports that disperse sound into the room, with lots of other funky curves and ridges on the sides.

The front LED readout shines through the front surface, continuing the clean, minimal theme. We like a good LED display on a soundbase, as it’s much easier to understand than a series of blinking lights. A few touch-sensitive controls are found on the top panel, enabling you to control volume, input selection and power.

We’re also impressed by the HW-H600’s build quality. Solid and heavy, it’ll easily support TVs up to 60in, as long as they’re less than 77lbs and fit within the top surface. We’d say the Canton DM50’s design is slightly more luxurious – some of the Samsung’s fittings are plasticky to the touch – but overall it’s an impressively constructed unit.