The good news is that there’s a pretty sizable difference in sound quality from the 36-inch bar to the 46-inch version - the latter is not only louder, but it has a deeper bass response, a more forward mid-range and better sound dispersion that allows you to fill the room with high-quality sound rather than just a feet.Ī vast majority of that is due to the fact that the soundbar itself has EIGHT drivers and two passive radiators that are in charge of outputting the left, right and center channels, as well as the height left and height right channels. We knew it’d be more powerful, obviously, but couldn’t picture much else changing. Once you have Atmos content on an Atmos compatible system, the lower LEDs will light up green to indicate you’re hearing Atmos - you know, if you can’t tell by the sound of the helicopter flying overhead.Īfter reviewing the 36-inch Vizio Soundbar last month, we didn’t expect to hear much of a difference in the 46-inch version. Playing Atmos requires both content and a source - either an LG, Sony, TCL or Vizio TV, an Atmos-capable Blu-ray player, Xbox One or an Apple TV. Instead of five channels of discrete audio, Atmos provides four additional height channels to create a audio sphere where audio can occur both above and behind you. While SmartCast makes streaming audio easier, Dolby Atmos is what makes audio sound better.Ītmos, if you’ve never heard it before, is the next step on the path to more realistic-sounding audio.
Technically speaking, SmartCast doesn’t even need a constant connection to your phone to work - once your phone initiates the stream for SmartCast, the soundbar will use its internal Wi-Fi antenna to take over, allowing you to use your phone without an app hogging all your bandwidth. Having Chromecast built-in is a huge time saver - as long as your phone and the soundbar are on the same network, you can send an audio stream from one to the other without needing to manually connect over Bluetooth. Support currently includes apps like Pandora and Spotify, alongside a few of the other major players. What SmartCast allows you to do is send audio streams from your phone to your soundbar. It uses SmartCast on its TVs that has a visual component and it also uses SmartCast on its soundbars that’s basically identical to a Google Chromecast Audio. Now SmartCast, if you’re unfamiliar with it, is just Vizio’s name for its smart platform. The two marquee features of Vizio’s 2018 soundbars are its inclusion of Dolby Atmos audio and its Google Cast-based SmartCast system. It’d be nice if Vizio included a small LCD screen on the front, but there is one on the remote itself if memorizing LED patterns isn’t up your alley. On the front of the soundbar you’ll find, well, you won’t find anything other than a few LED indicator lights that flash to tell you what’s happening.
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On the back of the soundbar, you’ll find an HDMI Out (ARC), HDMI IN, Optical Audio In and 3.5mm jack ports for audio, plus a USB and Ethernet port. These cables carry both power and signal and make it so that even the most novice of AV enthusiasts can get up and running in no time. Like the other soundbar systems in Vizio’s 2018 series, the subwoofer and rear speakers don’t need to be connected physically to the main soundbar and instead only need to be connected to one another via two long cables - one for each speaker. That larger subwoofer allows this system to hit even lower bass frequencies and packs a wallop. What separates the SB46514-F6 from its little brother is that the rear wireless channels have upfiring speakers of their own that add to the immersiveness of the surround sound, plus the subwoofer goes from a manageable 10 pounds to more like 25.
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