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Sennheiser ambeo soundbar5/9/2023 This wasīefore giving my impressions, I’ll jump ahead and tell you what I was to later measure.įirst, I measured from my listening position. It was the deep, deep bass of a subwoofer producing Pair of earbuds and listening to a podcast.Īfter a while I noticed a sensation too familiar to be Since that other stuff was boring, I was wearing a Think I could avoid a rookie mistake!) I just left the TV running for a whileĪs I was doing other stuff. Soundbar and making sure that it was receiving sound properly from the TV viaĪRC (ugghh, wrong cables in wrong connections – after all these years you’d What was that about no subwoofer? After setting up the Music listening with the Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar In a moment I shall see whether the Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar does a better job than that. Soundbars over the years and have found a range from almost useless to somewhat I note that I’ve assessed several dozen supposed surround System tends not to do so well with that kind of material. With discrete sounds intended to emanate from different parts of the room. At least, until you feed it some selected content ![]() But this can effectively fake a diffuse sound field that seems The science behind that is pretty hairy, so I won’t The other way is to use digital signal processing to manipulate That is … what if the walls and ceiling aren’t where they’re supposed to be?Īlso, beams of sound aren’t like laser beams. One is to carefully bounce beams of sound from the walls andĬeiling to simulate where real surround speakers would be. ![]() It – along with a continuum of balances between the two. Speakers at the front of the room is, well, hard. Delivering effective surround sound from a bar of The reason that most soundbars no longer purport to do The AAC codec in addition to the standard SBC. BothĪnd, of course, it simply must have Bluetooth. Networking is both Ethernet and Wi-Fi up to 802.11ac. There are also analogue and optical digital audio inputs.Īnd, should you want it, a wired subwoofer output. The output HDMI socket supports the Audio Return Channel from TVs. The soundbar passes video – including UltraHD – through to the connected display. There are three HDMI inputs and one HDMI output. Between the left-most and centre tweeters are three bass/midrange drivers, likewise on the right side. On the front are two more tweeters near the end, plus one in the middle. The ends are angled and on each end is a tweeter, so those two fire out wide. (But it does mention that the unit can consume up to 500 watts peak.) Sennheiser doesn’t specify the output power of its amplifier. These, it seems, deliver the height channels for Dolby Atmos (or DTS:X also supported). That is, like Atmos Enabled speakers are supposed to. The latter two are on the right and left ends, firing upwards at a slight angle back into the room. The Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar packs 13 drivers: six 100mm bass/midrange drivers, five 25mm aluminium dome tweeters and two 89mm “full range” driver. The final surprise, out of the box: $3,999.95. It’s also one of the world’s leading makers of high-quality microphones. Remember, Sennheiser is known not only for headphones. But this one comes inset into the end of a long 7mm-wide rod mounted on a stylish metal base. So it wasn’t a surprise that the Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar includes one. Most modern home theatre receivers and some high-quality soundbars come with a microphone to allow the soundbar to be automatically set up. So clearly, Sennheiser reckons it can do surround sound. The review unit has a Dolby Atmos demo Blu-ray enclosed. It was also applied to Sennheiser’s 3D smart headset, which we reviewed here. But Ambeo seems to be Sennheiser’s name for aural 3D surround. While some soundbars still promise surround sound, most have given up. ![]() One famous early model had forty small drivers inside, each individually powered, to project sound around the room. Way back when many soundbars were released promising to deliver real surround sound from the front of the room. All that weight was in the soundbar.Īnother surprise: 3D surround. Premium soundbars look like in their cartons. The wider section at one end used to hold the subwoofer. Another surprise, while the carton was large, it didn’t have
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