![]() I really enjoyed my time with the Cinema 400. If you’re thinking smaller, or are constrained by the space you have, you’ll want to seek out a more compact soundbar. If you don’t have space to accommodate it At 101cm, this is a full-sized soundbar.If you want an uncomplicated soundbar: The Cinema 400 is pretty much a plug-and-play effort, foregoing smarts and the complexities of premium soundbars to focus instead on boosting your TV sound.Nevertheless, the Cinema 400 engages – and with music, that isn’t always a guarantee where soundbars are concerned. Listening to The Preatures’ Is This How You Feel in Virtual Surround, while the sound is bigger than the dimensions of the bar, the tone of guitar sounds slightly strained with the bar’s virtual processing. Bass can dig deep the drum beat in Nelly Furtado’s Maneater is a confident, thumping effort, and again the Klipsch keeps the bass in check. There’s a focus on dialogue – as with TV and films, there’s weight to lyrics – and there’s detail, dynamism and clarity to the mid-range performance, with high frequencies clean and sharply delivered. With music the Klipsch Cinema 400 is strong. I did notice while watching In The Heights that in Virtual Surround mode that dialogue was a little divorced from the actor’s mouths – something about the rhythm of the words felt off. It isn’t the widest presentation, but switch to the Virtual Surround mode and the Cinema 400 goes bigger, effects and dialogue are lifted off the screen towards the seating position with sounds dispersed towards the edges of the bar to make the presentation less flat. ![]() Dune (4K Blu-ray) requires a strong bass presence and the Cinema 400 said ‘no problem’ with a big, weighty and fulsome performance that provided heft to Denis Villeneuve’s sand-blasted epic. With all this in play, the Cinema 400 delivers a satisfyingly muscular sound across the range of content I played. The mid-range is covered by two 3-inch oval fibre cone composite woofers, and the subwoofer has an 8-inch downfiring drive unit. Sound QualityĪrmed with what I’d call an exotic speaker array (at least at this price), the Cinema 400 sports two of Klipsch’s 1-inch tweeters with 90° x 90° Tractrix horns that fire audio directly to the listener. The Surround 3 wireless speakers aren’t compatible with this model. Dialogue, Surround and Night modes are on the remote, and a final note on the features is that there’s no upgrade speaker path with the Cinema 400. There’s a page in the manual about programming control of your TV remote with the soundbar, but I doubt most will even consider doing so. With Bluetooth there’s the option of streaming from a smartphone, tablet or other device. There’s no eARC support, which means no Dolby Atmos and DTS:X – the Cinema 400 is strictly a stereo affair that plays Dolby Digital tracks, and Klipsch says it doesn’t support DTS soundtracks (although I still managed to play them). Brackets and screws are supplied if you want to wall-mount it directly.Īround the rear are HDMI ARC, USB, digital optical and analog inputs, with a sub-out if you want to connect a different subwoofer. At 40 inches long (that’s 101.4cm), it will require an adequate amount of furniture on which to perch. If you’ve even seen a soundbar from Klipsch, the Cinema 400 doesn’t fall far from its design tree. I find the Cinema 400 to be one of the nicer, more distinctive soundbars at this price, although I’ll wager some will feel differently. To paraphrase Arrested Development, a soundbar is meant to be heard, not seen. Oftentimes, your options are a black rectangular unit versus another black rectangular unit. ![]() DesignĪround the budget/entry-level area for soundbars, style is usually traded for function. ![]() It isn’t easy to make the noise you need to attract attention – but that hasn’t put off Klipsch from trying. You only need look at fellow US brand VIZIO to see a company that dipped its toes into the market only to take a sabbatical not long after. US brand Klipsch has made a concerted push into the UK soundbar market, with its most recent range seeing the launch of four models from the entry-level Cinema 400 to the Atmos surround-sound Cinema 1200 system.īut the UK soundbar market is a hard nut to crack. Dolby Audio: Can decode Dolby Digital soundtracks.Virtual Surround: Creates the impression of a bigger, wider performance.Horn-loaded tweeters: Klipsch’s high-frequency drivers direct sound towards the listener.
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