New LG soundbars get special features when used with LG OLED TVs

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LG might take shuttered its phones business just still has a range of home theater tech on the way, including both new soundbars and a multitude of OLED, OLED Evo and QNED with Mini LED TVs. Now the company has detailed some neat tricks you can employ when pairing 1 of the upcoming soundbars with one of its 2021 TVs.

The LG soundbars will piece of work with the company'southward new TVs' AI Sound Pro characteristic to share sound processing duties across both devices. The soundbars will too share the Idiot box'south audio modes, for greater consistency should y'all need to switch betwixt the Tv and soundbar speakers.

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The AI Audio Pro integration sounds more useful. Using a system called "TV Sound Manner Share" it aims to deliver the best of both worlds by using the Television set's superior audio processing capabilities only relying on the richer-sounding soundbar drivers (and subwoofers, where included) to pump out the processed sound.

As with contempo LG soundbars like the LG SK10Y and SL8Y, the company's 2021 soundbars will likewise include Top Audio tuning. This time, though, the British audio specialist is also contributing its new Median Horizon tech, which tin supposedly convert two-channel stereo audio into multi-channel audio for enhanced performance with surround audio setups.

Even if yous don't match i of the new soundbars with an LG Television receiver, they're still set to be a relatively well-featured clutch of dwelling speakers. All models, from the flagship 7.one.4-channel SP11RA to the 3.1.2 SPD7Y, will support How-do-you-do-Res Audio — so lossless 24 bit/96 kHz music can play in its full quality. Dolby Atmos and DTS:X are also supported beyond the range, and HDMI eARC ports come as standard.

LG remains coy virtually exact pricing and availability for these soundbars, though the first of them — including the SP11RA — volition continue sale in the U.Due south. and Europe later this month.

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James is currently Hardware Editor at Rock Newspaper Shotgun, merely before that was Audio Editor at Tom's Guide, where he covered headphones, speakers, soundbars and anything else that intentionally makes noise. A PC enthusiast, he besides wrote computing and gaming news for TG, usually relating to how hard information technology is to find graphics carte du jour stock.