Bose, listen to the dolby Atmos sound bar that makes a sound like a beam

Bose's sound bar "Smart SoundBar 900" was launched overseas in September last year and sold in Japan last month. This is the first model that supports Dolby Atmos for the first time in the Bose sound bar. The price is 119,900 yen. [See another image about this article] It is equipped with "PhaseGuide" that not only supports Dolby Atmos, but also fires a sound beam and reproduces a spreading sound, and a unique space processing technology "Truespace". The feature is. This time, I experienced the sound by touching the product for a short time, so I will report the sound. In general, it is necessary to arrange many speaker units in order to fire in a beam shape with a strong direction of sound. As a result, the housing with such a function will increase the size of the housing, but it is PhaseGuide that reproduces it with one thin plate -shaped unit. A mechanism in which the sound emitted from the unit passes through a plate -shaped part and is released through a mesh -shaped material sandwiched between them. At the same time as the signal in the direction you want to fly, in the direction you do not want to make a sound, the sound is turned into a beam by sending the reversal phase's signal in the same way as noise canceling and counteracting the sound. He says he will fly. In addition to these two PHASEGUIDE ×, it is equipped with a total of nine speaker units, a total of 9 elliptical main speakers, 4 center tweters, and two up -fitting diphol speakers × 2. There is. The input is EARC compatible HDMI x 1 system, optical digital x 1 system. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.You can enjoy music from your smartphone in correspondence 2. Also supports AirPlay. Voice assistant can be used with a microphone. This soundbar can add a subwoofer or rear speaker sold separately, but first listen to the sound bar alone. Play the scene of "Bohemian Rhapsody" that supports Dolby Atmos. Then, the sound is heard from the front, the middle of your face, in the middle of your face, in the middle of your face, in the middle of the TV screen, despite the fact that it is placed under the TV. In the scene where cheers spread to a large live venue, the voice is really widely expanded, and it can be felt firmly even if it disappears. I felt the height, so I felt like I was installing a front speaker and a front height speaker next to the TV. The bass is also firm, so you can taste the video content with plenty of realism even with the sound bar alone. Next, connected the subwoofer "Bose Bass Module 700 (94,600 yen)" and the rear speaker "Bose Surround Speakers (45,100 yen)", and played the bike action scene of "Mission: Impossible/Rogue Nation". In addition to being reproduced tightly to the high -frequency part of the groaning engine sound, the addition of the rear speaker, the feeling of moving when the sound image runs from the back to the front is clearer, improving the sprinting feeling. By adding a subwoofer, the explosion sound when the motorcycle crashed is also impressive. ■ Experience TrueSpace, a spatial processing technology of Bose, which reproduces the spread of sounds in natural upwards. Stereo sound source and 5.A function that reproduces the expansion of the sound by sorting the information of the upward direction with Bose's unique technology even in the content of 1ch. ON/OFF cannot be ON/OFF, and it is a function that can always be effective. In the function of surrounding sound information from stereo sound sources and surrounding it, there may be events such as "the vocal part of the vocal song is slightly assigned behind and becomes unnatural", but Bose's processing technology is. The strength is that it can analyze the sound and perform allocation that can be heard naturally. Return the settings to the sound bar alone and play the stereo music. Then, the sound can be heard from the top of the TV, and it feels as if there is a front and front height speaker. In vocal songs, vocals can be heard from the front, and the lingering lingering of accompaniment expands from the top, so you can certainly hear it in a wide sound field. Looking at the terrestrial broadcasting, the afternoon information program was flowing, but the BGM sounds quite expanded, and the voice of a person sounds clearly as if it flies straight. I'm glad that this effect is always working because this is not an exaggerated feeling, but a sound that is easy to hear naturally. The Smart SoundBar 900 also has an active equalizer function that automatically optimizes sound balance according to the volume, and the sound power and the ease of hearing the lines are the same even at a small volume. As I gradually lowered the volume while watching the terrestrial broadcasting, the sound became smaller, and even if the BGM was hardly heard, I was able to hear only the content of the human conversation. If the volume is raised, it will be adjusted so that the sound cracks are not occurring as a whole. You can enjoy movies without bothering your family and neighbors in the middle of the night, in order to support the "SimpleSync" that can play the sound of SMART SOUNDBAR 900 with Bose's wireless speaker/headphones. This time, when I tried using the "Noise Cancelling Headphones 700", which is optimized for SimpleSync and can send low delay transmission, I compared the sound from the speaker and the headphones at the same time, but the sound shift was felt. I didn't. See the web page for compatible models and optimized models. ■ If you look at the charm exterior of the high -quality appearance and the simple sound setting, glass is used on the top plate. Suppose that the corners are rounded round and have a sense of luxury as an interior. And buttons such as power supply are not installed, and most operations can be performed from the dedicated application. It is said that the installation and settings can be done easily by following the procedure displayed in the app. The round mark and the microphone mute mark on the left end of the main unit are the touch sensors, each of which can be turned on/OFF of the main body microphone in the round mark, and the microphone button can be switched on/off. Voice assistant supports Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa. Generally, speakers that support voice assistants may be difficult to detect commands during content regeneration, but Smart SoundBar 900 is equipped with eight noise regulation microphones on the left and right ends of the main unit. It is said that voices can be recognized even during content playback such as music. ADAPT IQ is automatically performed for acoustic adjustments according to the room. Attach a headset -type microphone in the shape of a headband to the head and listen to the test signal at 5 specified places in the app. It was interesting when I skipped this test signal. If you have set up an AV amplifier, you know, but it sounds as if each speaker was ringing. This time, it was done by the sound bar alone, but it can be heard as if there was a speaker from the main unit to the center, and from the wall to the front L/R, front height L/R. It was a moment when PhaseGuide's ability was easy to understand. It is not a price that can be purchased easily, about 120,000 yen, but even if you purchase multiple speakers and AV amplifiers, if you connect to a TV with one HDMI cable, you will usually watch the TV. It is a great advantage that the sound is much better, and if you play a movie that supports Dolby Atmos with the distribution service, you can enjoy it as it is. Even if you want to enjoy the surround in earnest, some of you are starting to think that it will be cheaper because you only add a subwoofer and rear speaker. It is also attractive that the installation and settings can be easily performed to adjust the sound by attaching the headset -type microphone while checking the application. Rather than preparing the home theater environment that takes up space, we want to enjoy a simple and easy sound, but if you want to make a cost, it will be a product that will meet that expectation.

AV Watch, Yoshio Nozawa