[Passionategeekz Review Room]TCL Q9L Pro QD-Mini LED TV experience: 618 hot product reservation, 10,000 yuan lower gear can be used very well

This year, if you have plans to buy a TV, then the TCL Q9L Pro Mini LED TV will most likely appear in your shopping cart or favorites.

According to official data, this year’s 618 Shopping Festival‏‏‏‏‏‏‏TCL won the first place in the JD Home E-sports Speed ​​List, the first in the TV category of the Tmall E-sports Speed ​​List, and the first in the brand transaction volume ranking, with its strong performance of its Mini LED full matrix new products. Among them, the Q9L Pro series can be said to be the mainstay of winning this time.

As an upgrade and iteration of the previous mid-to-high-end popular model Q9K, the Q9L Pro series has achieved significant improvements in key areas such as screens, partitions, chips and audio, such as upgraded Huaxing high-end HVA screen – Butterfly Wings Star Screen, as well as the Colorful XDR 4500nits and the Anqiao brand 2.1.2 Hi-Fi audio, etc.

Next,PassionategeekzLet’s bring you the experience of getting started around this new product.

1. Light control

The key to the Mini LED TV experience is light control, but simply increasing the number of backlight partitions will have more and more limited results in improving picture quality. At the end of last year, TCL brought Vientiane Partitioning Technology, a complete system-level optical solution, from Mini LED light emitting chips, lens technology, to OD light mixing distance, light and shadow control algorithms, and screens to comprehensively optimize the optical performance of Mini LED TVs.

As a hit series among popular products, one of the highlights of TCL Q9L Pro is that it has upgraded the Vientiane Partition. Passionategeekz tested this time with an 85-inch version with 2448 partitions. With the support of the “Ventiane Partition” technical system, the official said that it is far more than the 5,000-level ordinary partition light control effect.

At the technical level, for example, the polynuclear optical core upgrades the sapphire high-gloss crystal base to a super-energy high-gloss crystal base, and adopts ALD atomic corrosion resistance process to greatly improve the brightness and energy efficiency of the TV. On the TCL Q9L Pro, compared with the industry’s ordinary multi-core Mini LED chip, the brightness is increased by 40% and the light efficiency is increased by 50%. In addition, it also has a series of cutting-edge technical support such as transient response, bidirectional 23bit and macro OD, which will not be explained one by one here.

Let’s take a look at the experience directly!

As shown in the picture above, in playing this 4K metering video, the light control performance of TCL Q9L Pro is amazing. What should be bright and what should be dark is pitch black, and the details are not leaking out. The whole picture presents a very strong three-dimensional sense, and the picture is very pure.

It is no exaggeration to say that this kind of light control, especially its ability to control the dark field, is almost comparable to that of self-luminous OLED. Even at some extreme side view angles, it is difficult to pick out the halo problem.

However, here we have to say it – the light control performance is comparable to OLED, which is far from enough. The “Qiucai XDR technology” of TCL Q9L Pro also has a high-brightness experience that is unattainable to OLED TVs.

The 85-inch Q9L Pro achieves peak brightness of the Colorful XDR 4000nits.

Unlike ordinary peak brightness, the peak brightness of the Chronicle XDR lasts longer. TCL Q9L Pro Chronicle XDR 4000nits can always maintain the highlight level of the picture. When high-contrast scenes such as the rising sun appear in the movie, the bright field area is bright but not dazzling, the dark details are clearly visible, and the color and light and dark transitions are naturally smooth.

Of course, the TCL Q9L Pro has excellent light control capabilities, and there is another very “explicit” reason – the Butterfly Winged Star Screen equipped.

Simply put, this is a screen with very strong anti-reflection ability. Its liquid crystal layer adopts nano-level bionic technology, with liquid crystal molecules arranged in a “butterfly wing” shape, and liquid crystal molecules arranged regularly at 89° inside the HVA screen, and have very strong light-shielding ability.

You should know that in the indoor environment, especially when the lights and ambient lights are interfered with, the picture will have a lot of reflections. Just like a mirror, even if the color of the picture is displayed well, these interfered reflections will seriously affect the viewing experience.

There are also solutions, such as matte screens, but although this traditional matte screen turns the mirror reflection into a soft diffuse reflection, it weakens the reflective effect to a certain extent. However, while reducing the reflection, it often makes the picture look like a layer of mist, and the overall appearance is gray. Especially in dark scenes, whitening is becoming more and more serious, and the originally deep and pure black has also lost its proper purity.

TCL’s Butterfly Winged Star Screen has increased 0.5% LR low-reverse film, combined with the liquid crystal molecular structure, achieved a reflectivity of 1.8% of the whole machine, and its native contrast ratio has reached 7000:1. It has stronger light control ability, better dark state effect, and faster response speed, solving the core pain points of screen reflection in the past.

As such, when most dark scenes are available, the TCL Q9L Pro not only performs excellent light control, without halo interference, but also has purer black and is not affected by external light. For example, at noon when there is plenty of sunshine, the screen can still present a delicate and colorful picture even if it does not close the curtains.

It can be said that the Butterfly Wing Star Screen is the perfect match for Mini LED TVs.

2. Picture quality

With the support of Vientiane partition technology, there is no need to worry about the picture quality performance of TCL Q9L Pro. Further, TCL Q9L Pro’s quantum dot Pro 2025 technology has ushered in a comprehensive upgrade, using colorful quantum crystals, integrating human-caused color optimization technology, making the color presentation closer to the human eye’s preferences, achieving high restoration, and making the picture color vivid and natural.

Not only that, the series also achieves a true 98% DCI-P3 ultra-high color gamut value. This real color gamut parameter means that users can appreciate more rich and delicate color levels and details. Combined with professional-grade color accuracy of ΔE<0.99, ensure accurate color presentation.

In terms of technical configuration, the TCL Q9L Pro is equipped with TSR AI independent image quality chip. This chip developed based on TCL’s self-developed Fuxi AI big model is the first to realize the dual enhancement function of cloud-terminals, making the cloud chip source clearer.

As shown in the real picture, the bright and charming part of the TCL Q9L Pro is bright and charming, and the dark part is deep and distant, which significantly enhances the contrast and layering of the picture. At the same time, the improvement of the backlight brightness makes the picture show richer color details, brighter layers, and better color performance.

III. Design

In terms of appearance design, the Q9L Pro series continues the “extremely thin” family design concept, bringing people an extremely intuitive visual impact. As far as the border is concerned, it is extremely narrow, as shown in the figure, like a slender “black line”.

Thin is also a major feature of this series. Thanks to the flat design on the back and abandoning the traditional “small schoolbag” shape, the Q9L Pro can achieve a better wall-mounted effect.

In order to facilitate shooting, Passionategeekz chose the seating method this time. Even so, the visual experience brought by the ultra-thin design is still very obvious.

In terms of details, the Q9L Pro itself is also quite ingenious in interface design. The HDMI, USB and other terminals are moved to the side of the TV, making daily plug-in and unplugging operations more convenient and fast.

It is necessary to mention here that for friends who need to hang and install, it is very recommended to buy TCL’s magnetically absorbed ultra-thin hanger. The thickness of this hanger is only 8mm. The flat-panel design can make the TV more fitting with the wall when hanging, perfectly blending with the home environment, showing high-end and atmosphericity.

More importantly, this magnetic ultra-thin hanger has the function of overall lifting, providing great convenience for subsequent plug-ins. For example, if you need to add an HDMI cable in the future and use a 50mm tube to hide the installation, the operation can be completed without removing the TV. This magnetic ultra-thin hanger is priced at 95 yuan. When the TCL installation master calls you to make an appointment for installation, he will tell the master that you need a magnetic ultra-thin hanger.

4. Comprehensive experience and TCL wireless panoramic sound box Z100 experience

The TCL Q9L Pro main movement has also been upgraded to 9655 PLUS, and its performance has been doubled. In addition, spiritual control system 3.0 has also added a number of practical functions, with hundreds of free components. These components are similar to card magnets in mobile phone systems. Users can freely customize desktop film and television content, functional applications and sorting methods according to their personal usage scenarios. And it still supports fast boot and no boot ad‏‏. ‏

In terms of audio systems, the Q9L Pro series is equipped with Anqiao brand 2.1.2 Hi-Fi audio, with 5 channels of professional configuration, which can achieve 360° all-round 3D stereo surround sound field effect. Unlike ordinary 2.1 channel speakers, the 2.1.2 channel adds two sky sounds, achieving hardware-level surround and better three-dimensional sense.

The Anqiao brand has more than 70 years of professional audio technology accumulation, and its technical strength and quality assurance are well-known in the industry. With 60W power and support for Dolby+DTS dual decoding + Dolby Atmos, the audio performance is naturally excellent.

If you are pursuing a more extreme speaker experience, then the author strongly recommends the Z100 speaker. Currently during the 618 period, when purchasing the TCL Q9L Pro, you only need to add 799 yuan to purchase the Z100 speaker (original price of 1,499 yuan).

The Z100 is TCL’s wireless panoramic soundbox, and a TV can support up to 4 speakers of the Z100 series.

Each Z100 speaker actually contains four sound units, forming a 1.1.1 channel, and the peak power of a single Z100 is as high as 170W, the tweeter frequency is 20KHz, and it is also equipped with rubidium iron boron magnet speakers. Combining the four Z100s, the entire system will have 16 physical units, and the TV itself coordinated sounding will form a multi-channel panoramic sound system, which can be said to be a dimensionality reduction blow.

As a wireless panoramic sound box, the Z100 can be directly connected to the TV after power is connected, without complicated wiring.

For example, when it is first started, under the same WiFi, the TV can automatically recognize the Z100. After wireless connection, the TV will calibrate the speaker and adjust it according to the speaker position to achieve the best sound field effect.

In the TV settings, users can also freely switch audio options, such as selecting “Speaker + Z100” or using only the TV speakers, which is very convenient.

Passionategeekz has recorded a video here, so you can experience it intuitively:

Recording device: vivo X200 Ultra (2X, 1080P image quality)

Recording distance: 2M directly in front of the TV

Mobile phone (handheld) recording, audio and video quality is for reference only

To be honest, the Q9L Pro is equipped with the Anqiao 2.1.2 Hi-Fi speaker is completely enough. Whether it is watching movies or listening to music on a daily basis, especially listening to pop music, the Q9L Pro performs very well, with moist vocals, full bass, full of elasticity, and the string parts are also very clear and not “spicy” ears.

However, in front of the four Z100s, after they jointly make sounds together, the audio experience directly comes to a new dimension, especially in the movie scene. The surging surround sound effect brings a strong sense of presence, but it does not bang the head. Moreover, its sound field is so strong that it is already very “terrifying” just by turning the volume to around 30. If it is a little louder, I am afraid that the neighbors will come to the door.

This configuration is perfect for families with a well-budget and single-family villa.

Conclusion

According to data from Luotu Technology (RUNTO), in Q1 2025, the top eight major brands in China’s TV market shipped about 8.49 million units, accounting for 96.0% of the total shipments in the market. Among them, TCL brands shipped more than 2 million units, ranking first in the Chinese TV market shipments.

Data proves that TCL has an absolute voice in the field of Mini LED TV. The new Mini LED full matrix product it creates naturally becomes a choice that this 618 consumer cannot bypass. The protagonist of this article – Q9L Pro, is a popular choice that provides a price of less than 10,000 yuan for a configuration of less than 10,000 yuan in the above context.

In short, if your budget is just around 5K and needs a TV with excellent screen (anti-reverse), light control, brightness, color, audio and even design, the Q9L Pro is the right choice.

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