![]() The front of the soundbar has a set of touch controls in typical Yamaha-style LEDs, which look somewhat dated. Other manufacturers in this price range mostly default to plastic. ![]() The soundbar looks and feels very solid, and the subwoofer feels stout as it is made from MDF. Where the design lacks, Yamaha YAS-207 makes up in engineering quality and build. It does not have a wow factor as it features a simple black cloth grill giving the soundbar a fairly generic feel. The design has never been the strongest side of Yamaha and this time around it is pretty dull too. It includes active DSP and EQ circuitry, bass, treble, and loudness level controls, lip-sync delay, a nighttime mode, and voice enhancement mode. The Sonos app features full sound controls and configuration. It allows you to group the speakers into zones and send the different audio signals to different zones at the same time. ![]() It can be used to configure the audio output across all interconnected Sonos speakers in your house. You also get a to experience a fantastic app for PC, Mac, iPhone or Android users. ![]() It felt a bit too much for Sonos Playbar to handle and we had to tone it down a notch. We did, however, run into some little issues when the movie scenes got busy with explosion-packed action scenes. The audio quality produced is smooth, bright and very realistic. Playing back The Expendables gets you instantly impressed with a remarkably expanded soundstage. With the Sonos Sub, the soundstage becomes a lot more complete as it complements the soundbar just perfectly.Īlthough Sonos Playbar has been designed for music more than anything else, it performs equally well when watching movies. For the ones wanting to take the audio experience a couple of notches up, we suggest adding a subwoofer into the mix, if you can afford it. Sonos Playbar produces very respectable levels mid-bass, which will be sufficient for most of us allowing the soundbar to be used on its own. These filters simulate sounds arriving from overhead, to give you a more immersive and expansive experience.ĭolby Atmos soundbars which utilize height virtualization allow for more flexibility in room environment since it doesn’t rely on ceiling reflections to deliver the Dolby Atmos experience.The sound quality is genuinely more vibrant than the soundbar’s size, yet to achieve the best results we found that the soundbar needs to sit upright, which is also the recommendation from Sonos. The second type of soundbar enabled with Dolby Atmos is one that does not have upward-firing drivers, but instead uses height virtualization to reproduce the effect of Dolby Atmos sound placement and movement above and around you for sound that is more expansive, even in smaller rooms.īased on extensive Dolby research into how we perceive sound, Dolby Atmos height virtualization applies carefully designed filters to individual sounds that come from overhead. Soundbars with upward-firing speakers will deliver the most natural, true-to-life sounds emanating from above and all around when a room has a flat, non-vaulted ceiling as high as 14 feet (4.3 meters), and with a clear audio path from the top of the soundbar to the ceiling. This means that sound is projected to the ceiling, then reflects back down on you to provide a full experience of lifelike sound overhead and around you. Some soundbars with Dolby Atmos technology use upward-firing speakers. Unlike a standard stereo soundbar, a soundbar enabled with Dolby Atmos uses cinema-inspired technology to transform your room into an amazing place for entertainment and make you feel like you’re inside the story. When these sounds are placed and moved in space, your entertainment comes to life above and all around you. Sound comes from all directions, including overhead, to fill the room with astonishing sound clarity, richness, detail, and depth. Each individual sound is more nuanced and realistic for a richer and fuller immersive experience. Through the creative placement of individual sounds, Dolby Atmos adapts cinema-inspired immersive sound to your living room to create powerful, moving audio. Instead of buying larger home theater systems to supplement TV audio, soundbars are useful because they take up less space and are generally less expensive. Soundbars are made up of multiple loudspeakers housed in a long, wide enclosure and are commonly used with your TV or home entertainment system. What is a soundbar enabled with Dolby Atmos and why is it better than a regular soundbar?
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