Still, if you’re looking for the ultimate premium Atmos soundbar, we’d suggest spending that minimal amount extra for the added height, transparency, musicality and dynamics of the Sonos Arc. The Bose Soundbar 900 is a good effort for the company's first-ever Dolby Atmos speaker.
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While it’s a shame that there’s no extra HDMI passthrough, there’s a decent selection of options for streaming content with wi-fi, Bluetooth 4.2, Spotify Connect, AirPlay 2 and Chromecast. Physical connectivity is limited to a single HDMI eARC port, an optical in, ethernet and a USB socket.
Frequently this can make the soundscape more entertaining, but it's somewhat inconsistent in its effectiveness and occasionally adds its own organisational structure. Unfortunately, there is no way to disable this AI feature, and although sometimes it adds a welcome depth, it can alter the tonal character of the audio. This means that regardless of whether you’re watching a film in 5.1 or streaming a track in stereo, the Soundbar 900’s internal DSP will decide when and when not to use the height transducers. All non-Atmos content is automatically up-mixed using Bose’s TrueSpace technology. Sound format support for the Soundbar 900 is fairly partisan, with decoding only available for Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital, Dolby TrueHD and Dolby Digital Plus. It's surprisingly less fiddly than other optimisation techniques we’ve tried before and relatively effective with the option to toggle the resulting changes on and off. The Bose Music app is also where you’ll find ADAPTiQ, Bose’s room calibration software, which quite novelly requires you to wear a headband with a microphone on the top as you sit in multiple listening locations around your room.
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Meanwhile, Bose’s Voice4Video feature further expands Alexa's capabilities by enabling users to turn on and control their TV or satellite box using their voice. The onboard Alexa also allows users to make and receive intercom calls to other Bose smart products and Amazon Echo devices, or make hands-free calls to anyone from within your contacts list, a neat and pretty unique feature. The chassis also houses a built-in microphone array used to activate either of the supported voice assistants – Amazon’s Alexa and Google assistant. Instead, two further transducers on the far left and right use Bose's PhaseGuide technology to beam multi-directional sound to distinct areas in your room. Despite the appearance of its completely wrap-around grille, there are no side-firing drivers.
As well as the pair of height drivers, inside, you’ll find one centre tweeter flanked by four racetrack transducers. Available in black or arctic white, the sparkling surface looks sleek with a pair of lozenge-shaped cutouts in the glass topper for two dipole, up-firing transducers.Īltogether, the Soundbar 900 has nine channels of amplification, two fewer than the Sonos Arc. We loved its glacial style, innovative streaming features, app user experience and all-around specification, but the overall sound performance, particularly concerning Atmos and upmixing, was found lacking compared to alternatives such as the Sonos Arc and Sony HT-A700.ĭesigned for 50-inch TVs or larger, the Bose Smart Soundbar 900 has an eye-catching aesthetic, with rounded corners, a metal grille and a polished, impact-resistant tempered glass top. The most recent Bose soundbar to pass through our testing labs was the Dolby Atmos-enabled Bose Smart Soundbar 900, priced at £849 / $900 / AU$1399, which garnered a respectable four stars from us.
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