This $5,800 aluminum soundbar simply may upstage your TV

One of the best soundbars are designed primarily to be heard, not seen. This new aluminum-clad behemoth from Bang & Olufsen, nevertheless, calls for to be heard and seen, and it arrives with a price ticket as lofty as its eye-catching “sculptural” design.  

Slated to go on sale subsequent month for a whopping $5,800, the Beosound Premiere from Bang & Olufsen arrives filled with speaker drivers—10 of them—in addition to help for immersive Dolby Atmos audio. 

Among the many Beosound Premiere’s inside audio system are a quartet of 4 x 3-inch “racetrack”-style woofers to provide the bass, a pair of two-inch front-firing audio system, two extra side-firing drivers for encompass results, and an up-firing driver sitting beneath 1,925 milled perforations, which pay “tribute to B&O’s 100-year heritage,” in keeping with the corporate. 

In all, these 10 drivers serve up seven channels of audio, preferrred for streaming Dolby Atmos soundtracks, whereas Bang & Olufsen’s “Huge Stage” know-how employs “driver-specific acoustic knowledge” to assist to spice up the perceived width and peak of the Premiere’s soundstage, and an Superior Bass administration system is designed to add oomph to the built-in woofers. 

So far as ports go, the Beosound Premiere presents a single HDMI eARC connector that may deal with lossless audio piped from a TV-connected Blu-ray participant, together with a three-port gigabit ethernet swap (a premium connectivity function for a soundbar), and dual-band Wi-Fi. You may stream music to the soundbar through Bluetooth in addition to Apple’s AirPlay protocol, Spotify Join, Tidal Join, and Deezer Join. 

Lastly, there’s the Beosound Premiere’s “pure” aluminum shell, with the entire package deal including as much as a “sculptural masterpiece and daring expression of acoustic artistry,” boasts Bang & Olufsen CEO Kristian Teär. 

The practically 19-pound soundbar can be out there in three variants: Pure Aluminum, Gold Tone, and Black Anthracite, whereas an included stand permits for both inserting the unit on a tabletop or mounting it on a wall. 

You’ll additionally have the ability to add an elective speaker cowl, with a material cowl in gray mélange out there for $325, or a pair of picket covers (oak and darkish oak) crafted from single items of wooden promoting for a budget-busting $1,650 every. 

If the usual $5,800 configuration of the Beosound Premiere isn’t premium sufficient for you, Bang & Olufsen can be providing a “Haute Version” of the soundbar with “precision-milled grooves achieved by way of an intricate milling course of” that takes 17 hours to finish, the corporate says.  

B&O says it’s solely manufacturing 25 items of the $15,700 “Haute Version” soundbars, which can be individually numbered and arrive with their very own certificates of authenticity. 

This story is a part of TechHive’s in-depth protection of the perfect media-streaming gadgets.