
On the subject of primo soundbars, the Sennheiser Ambeo guidelines the roost – even when it does command a value that’ll make your financial institution supervisor wince. Fortunately you received’t must remortgage the home to afford its new child brother, the Ambeo Soundbar Plus, which squeezes 7.1.4 sound right into a extra compact physique, or the Ambeo Sub that lands alongside it.
Sennheiser is promising the identical eerily efficient 3D sound from a singe supply because the OG Ambeo, which has been rebranded to the Ambeo Soundbar Max. It’ll do this through three front-facing drivers, two upward-firing ones and a side-firing one at either side, plus a pair of woofers. That appears like loads, however the agency has managed to significantly shrink the system down so it’s significantly smaller than the pricier unique.
As earlier than, the Ambeo Plus depends on self-calibration tech to learn your room’s acoustic traits and compensate on the fly, for convincing Dolby Atmos spacial audio. It additionally helps DTS:X and 360 Actuality Audio. It’s packing all of the connectivity you’d anticipate, like Apple AirPlay 2, Spotify Join, Tidal Join and Chromecast, together with Google Assistant, Alexa and Apple Siri integration. No phrase on bodily connections simply but, however we’re positive you may anticipate no less than one HDMI 2.1 passthrough.


The Ambeo Sub, in the meantime, pairs an 8in woofer with a 350W class-D amplifier for foundation-rattling bass all the best way all the way down to 27Hz. You possibly can even join 4 of the issues to a single system, by which level you may in all probability measure them on the Richter scale.
It performs properly with each the Ambeo Plus and Ambeo Max, with every system recalibrating itself to accommodate the additional low-end rumble. It makes use of a wi-fi connection, so there’s no must snake unpleasant cables round your sitting room.
Each the Ambeo Soundbar Plus and Ambeo Sub are set to go on sale from the twenty second of September, with pre-orders open proper now. Anticipate to pay £1299 for the previous and £599 for the latter.