You can customize the sound of Klipsch’s new soundbar for exactly where you sit

Klipsch has announced its caller Flexus Core 300 soundbar, which it claims is the industry’s archetypal to utilize Dirac’s Live Room correction technology to optimize its dependable specifically for the country wherever it’s installed and wherever listeners are sitting. Dirac Live is typically lone featured successful amplifiers and receivers that are portion of a much analyzable — and much costly — location theatre setup.

The $999 Flexus Core 300 volition beryllium “available this winter,” according to What Hi-Fi? and features 8 side-firing, front-firing, and up-firing 2.25-inch speakers, positive 4 4-inch subwoofers. Connectivity includes Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ethernet, 8K passthrough HDMI, HDMI eARC, USB-C, and a integer audio port. Switching inputs and adjusting settings similar EQ is handled done Klipsch’s Connect Plus mobile app disposable for iOS and Android.

Altering the dependable output to compensate for the layout, size, and signifier of a country isn’t a caller diagnostic for soundbars, but its execution varies. Samsung’s SpaceFit Sound relies connected a microphone located connected the soundbar itself to find however dependable is affected arsenic it bounces astir a room, portion LG’s AI Room Calibration uses a mobile app and the built-in microphone connected a smartphone to execute tests and find what dependable corrections request to beryllium applied.

The Dirac Live Room Correction exertion is much comprehensive, relying connected a Windows oregon macOS app and a microphone attached to a laptop to instrumentality dependable measurements from respective antithetic locations successful a country wherever listeners volition sit. Dirac Live uses each of those measurements to calibrate the soundbar to make a “coherent and earthy dependable environment” that “enhances the clarity of dialog successful movies and the purity of vocals successful music.”

Out of the box, the Klipsch Flexus Core 300 comes with the “Limited Bandwidth” licence for the Dirac Live software, which lone corrects frequencies up to 500Hz. Dirac besides plans to yet marque a “Full Bandwidth” license disposable for the soundbar, which corrects frequencies it says widen crossed the full scope of quality proceeding — up to 20kHz — for an further fee.