You possibly can customise the sound of Klipsch’s new soundbar for precisely the place you sit Leave a comment

Klipsch has introduced its new Flexus Core 300 soundbar, which it claims is the trade’s first to make the most of Dirac’s Dwell Room correction expertise to optimize its sound particularly for the room the place it’s put in and the place listeners are sitting. Dirac Dwell is usually solely featured in amplifiers and receivers which can be a part of a extra advanced — and costlier — house theater setup.

The $999 Flexus Core 300 can be “accessible this winter,” based on What Hello-Fi? and options eight side-firing, front-firing, and up-firing 2.25-inch audio system, plus 4 4-inch subwoofers. Connectivity consists of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ethernet, 8K passthrough HDMI, HDMI eARC, USB-C, and a digital audio port. Switching inputs and adjusting settings like EQ is dealt with by means of Klipsch’s Join Plus cellular app accessible for iOS and Android.

Altering the sound output to compensate for the structure, dimension, and form of a room isn’t a brand new function for soundbars, however its execution varies. Samsung’s SpaceFit Sound depends on a microphone positioned on the soundbar itself to find out how sound is affected because it bounces round a room, whereas LG’s AI Room Calibration makes use of a cellular app and the built-in microphone on a smartphone to carry out assessments and decide what sound corrections should be utilized.

The Dirac Dwell Room Correction expertise is extra complete, counting on a Home windows or macOS app and a microphone hooked up to a laptop computer to take sound measurements from a number of completely different areas in a room the place listeners will sit. Dirac Dwell makes use of all of these measurements to calibrate the soundbar to create a “coherent and pure sound surroundings” that “enhances the readability of dialogue in motion pictures and the purity of vocals in music.”

Out of the field, the Klipsch Flexus Core 300 comes with the “Restricted Bandwidth” license for the Dirac Dwell software program, which solely corrects frequencies as much as 500Hz. Dirac additionally plans to finally make a “Full Bandwidth” license accessible for the soundbar, which corrects frequencies it says prolong throughout the complete vary of human listening to — as much as 20kHz — for a further payment.