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Television is familiar to everyone. It has occupied the top spot among living room entertainment products since its birth. People watch news, watch TV series, play games and watch movies through television. The development of the TV industry in the past 10 years can be said to be rapid. The most intuitive change is that TV sets are becoming thinner and thinner. This has almost become a technology competition. Each TV manufacturer is pursuing the ultimate thinness and lightness, resulting in less and less space left for speakers on the TV. In order to improve the audio-visual system of the TV, products such as TV sound bars were born.
The sound bar is the common name for this type of sound bar, and its official English name is Soundbar. The soundbar sound bar is independent of the TV, which greatly makes up for the shortcomings of the TV sound system. The product I received for review this time is the first all-in-one 5.1.2 Dolby Atmos Soundbar: Devialet Dione produced by the well-known French audio brand Devialet.
DEVIALET
DEVIALET The name DEVIALET has long been heard by enthusiasts, but for ordinary consumers, the name DEVIALET may be a bit unfamiliar. First, The first time I became aware of this brand was probably its co-branding with Huawei SoundX speakers. In fact, this high-end acoustic technology company from France was founded in 2007. The most well-known among them is the Phantom series of speakers. As Devialet's first soundbar product, Devialet Dione's performance unsurprisingly left a deep impression on me.
Break the dull appearance design
Antoine Gaudí once said: "Straight lines belong to humans, curves belong to God." This sentence is perfectly suitable to describe the DevialetDione speaker. . The highly technological appearance design of Devialet Audio always gives people a very amazing feeling. From the impressive spherical design of the Phantom series of speakers to the Devialet Dione, Devialet has always implemented its concept of "shaping shape with sound".
The first impression of DevialetDione is that it is elegant and majestic. The overall sound is matte black, and the surface material is made of anodized aluminum alloy and wrapped with unique acoustic fabric, which is very textured. I believe you have seen from the picture the biggest design highlight of this soundbar: the ORB? center channel. Different from the traditional soundbar pure straight line design, DevialetDione designed a "small ball" in the middle of the speaker. This small ball looks like a droplet when it enters the water on the surface of the speaker, adding a bit of dynamics to the overall speaker. I like this design very much. It makes the speaker look less boring and more like a beautiful piece of art, which attracts me to watch it again and again.
Here I would like to mention DevialetDione’s patented design - ORB? center channel. In addition to making the sound more beautiful, it actually also has a very practical function built-in. Many people are accustomed to placing the Soundbar directly on the TV cabinet when using it, and some people hang the Soundbar on the wall to save space. In order to allow the speaker to achieve the best playback status even when it is mounted on the wall, Devialet has designed a patented technology for the ORB center channel of Devialet Dione that can be rotated. Through this rotating mechanical structure, it can be placed horizontally or stood up. No matter how you place it, you can always get the best playback effect from the speakers. Let the design of the product always serve the function, and be both beautiful and usable. Devialet has truly integrated technology into life.
Devialet's powerful acoustic system
Under the stunning exterior design of Devialet Dione, the internal acoustic system makes this soundbar not only good-looking.
This DevialetDione soundbar is equipped with up to 17 high-end neodymium coil driver units independently designed by Devialet, 9 of which are full-range units with high-Zhenfu aluminum diaphragms, and the other 8 are long-stroke subwoofer units. These 17 sound units are distributed on the front and sides of the sound bar, providing a basic guarantee of shocking sound quality without the need for additional subwoofers.
Why do I say it is basic protection? Because it is not enough to just rely on stacking sound-generating units to determine the sound quality of a speaker.
The Devialet Dione is also equipped with the latest generation of Devialet intelligent processing chip. In only 1 square centimeter, it integrates Devialet's patented ADH? analog-digital hybrid amplification technology and SAM? speakers. Source matching technology and MagicWire, ClassA and digital-to-analog converter DAC, etc. ADH? and SAM?, two housekeeping patented technologies, are also used in the Phatom series of speakers. These patented technologies enable the eight long-stroke subwoofer units to exert more energy, allowing the speakers to maximize the limits of low-frequency performance within the physical limits of the system itself, bringing shocking and surging low frequencies.
If you want to experience cinema-level listening experience at home, you need a soundbar that supports Dolby Atmos sound effects. For example, when you watch a movie in a cinema, you can usually feel sounds coming from all directions and different directions. This feeling of being wrapped in a sound field is called panoramic sound. However, unlike the audio-visual environment in a movie theater that is specially created for audio-visual performance, the environment at home is much more complicated. To experience true Dolby Atmos, you need speakers that can match the acoustic environment of your home. In other words, the speaker needs to know what your home looks like. To this end, Devialet configured Devialet Dione with: SPACETM3D up-mixing acoustic algorithm. When the speaker works for the first time, you will hear a sound from low frequency to high frequency. The speaker collects the sound bounced back from this sound wave and calculates to build an exclusive acoustic model for your room. And upgrade the stereo signal to 5.1.2 channels to achieve a highly immersive 360-degree surround listening experience.
In addition, thanks to Devialet's new advanced dimensional experience patented technology, Devialet Dione can automatically detect and sense the current position of the speaker through the built-in gyroscope, adjust the sound field in real time, and use beamforming technology to restore the sound field. Multi-channel audio.
DevialetAPP
After pairing with the speaker through DevialetAPP, you can make various customized settings for the speaker. After pairing, when you open the Devialet APP for the first time, you will be prompted to calibrate the room you are in. After the calibration is successful, you can officially use the speaker. In the APP settings, DevialetDione provides 4 audio modes: movie mode, music mode, voice mode and space mode. When you select spatial mode, you will see a 5.1.2 setting. This is the SPACETM technology mentioned above. When you switch to spatial mode, you can obviously feel that the sound field of the sound is wider and the direction of the sound is more three-dimensional.
The ultimate audio-visual experience
After pairing it with the speakers, I opened Dollby Atmos on the official Dolby website for online listening. DollbyAtmos's online audition will not only provide you with audio clips, but also show you the current sound position in the form of animation. As I mentioned above, after turning on the spatial mode, the sound field performance of the speaker is further improved, and the sound field of Dollby Atmos is fully expressed. You can clearly feel the sound coming to you from different directions, and the effect is very obvious.
In addition, I also listened to the song "Ferry" on AppleMusic. After connecting to the speaker through AirPlay2 through iPadmini6, with the support of Devialet SAM technology, the performance of the drum part of this song is very shocking, the sound waves are constantly transmitted, and the sound is full of presence.
The tambourine part sounds crisp and clear, the guitar tone is restored to a high degree, the lines of the overall sound are very clear, the position and distance of various instruments can be clearly perceived, and the vocal part feels natural and transparent.
I also experienced the movie "Dune" after connecting it to the TV through the HDMI2.1eARC interface. In conjunction with the aircraft and other scenes in the movie, you can clearly feel the sound of aircraft whizzing by from Devialet Dione's sky sound channel surrounding your head, and the sound effects are very realistic. In addition, you can also feel the direction of the sound of the wind blowing in the desert. The wind blowing from left to right seems to be right next to your ears. As for some subtle movie sound effects, such as the sound of the protagonist breathing or the sound of the cup rubbing against the table, they can be accurately restored by DevialetDione, with very rich details.
Summary: DevialetDione all-in-one soundbar
This DevialetDione demonstrates Devialet’s highest attainments in the audio field. During the two weeks of experiencing DevialetDione, I was impressed by this device. Impressed by the appearance and sound performance of the speaker. Nowadays, as Dolby Atmos resources on streaming media platforms such as Bilibili, Tencent Video and iQiyi become more and more abundant, it is no longer difficult to experience a cinema-like audio-visual experience at home. Through DevialetDione you will be able to fully experience the unique charm of Dolby Atmos and the shocking sound it brings to you.
The Devialet Dione integrated soundbar once again proved through its own strength that this top acoustic brand from France is trustworthy. You can always trust Devialet when it comes to sound.
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