Bose has a brand new soundbar for the autumn buying season, and it features a few neat methods for homeowners of the corporate’s clip-on earbuds. The Bose Good Soundbar is a “small, modern” mannequin with AI Dialogue Mode and a Private Encompass function for homeowners of the Ultra Open Earbuds.
The Bose Good Soundbar has 5 transducers, together with two side-firing (racetrack-shaped) ones, a middle tweeter and two up-firing transducers. This association helps with Dolby Atmos content material, with the side-facing ones centered on horizontally positioned audio and the upward-facing ones bouncing pontificate the ceiling for an overhead phantasm. The middle tweeter handles dialog.
In case your content material doesn’t help Dolby Atmos for a spatial encompass expertise, the soundbar’s TrueSpace function can combine them in actual time to create a fake encompass impact. Bose claims the method produces sound “simply as successfully” as Dolby Atmos “with comparable spaciousness.”
House owners of Bose’s Extremely Open Earbuds — the $299 clip-on doodads that go away your ears uncovered — the soundbar can ship a extra personalised encompass expertise for one particular person. Designed so as to add dimension to content material, the function makes use of the earbuds as rear encompass audio system. Not like most earbuds, the Extremely Open mannequin doesn’t hinder your ears, permitting you to nonetheless hear the soundbar’s audio. Bose describes the mixed impact as a “sonic expertise of sound throughout you.”
The Private Encompass Sound function launches with this mannequin however will arrive on the (dearer) Bose Smart Ultra Soundbar later this fall.
The soundbar additionally helps the AI Dialogue Mode from the corporate’s Good Extremely Soundbar. The function makes use of AI to mechanically regulate the audio combine in actual time when it detects speech, making voices simpler to listen to “with out dropping any impression of immersive sound results.”
The Good Soundbar is 27 inches lengthy, 2.2 inches excessive and 4.1 inches deep. It has a black matte physique with a wraparound steel grille. On the connection entrance, it helps HDMI eARC (required for Dolby Atmos) and commonplace optical cables. You’ll be able to set it as much as work with Google Assistant and Alexa, and it really works with different Bose smart speakers (together with bass modules) for enhanced front room or multi-room setups.
The Bose Good Soundbar is obtainable on Wednesday for $499. You’ll be able to order it on Bose’s website.
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