Cambridge Audio’s new Evo One wireless streaming music speaker is a 15-driver beast that has extra in widespread with most high-end soundbars. It’s out there beginning August 9 for $1,500.
The Evo One is eye-catching in the very best means, with a wooden veneer high and a 6.8-inch coloration display screen, which makes it a bigger sibling to the Evo 150 streaming integrated amplifier. It could also be difficult to search out the proper spot for it, nonetheless. At 26.6 inches extensive and 11.4 inches deep, it’s going to require a good quantity of area. And at 32 kilos, with its personal built-in plinth-style stand, you gained’t be wall-mounting it. It comes with its personal devoted distant.
Behind its cloth grilles lies an enormous array of 15 drivers powered with as much as 50 watts of sophistication D amplification per unit. There are 4 1-inch tweeters, 4 2.25-inch mid-range drivers, and 6 2.75-inch long-throw woofers. Six of these drivers are front-facing, however there are additionally three drivers on every wing, plus two of the woofers are oriented out the rear of the speaker.
This form of association is what we’d count on to see on a soundbar just like the Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar Plus, which coincidentally shares the identical $1,500 value because the Evo One. According to Cambridge Audio, it’s an omnidirectional audio expertise. “There’s no need to sit in a sonic ‘sweet spot’ as you would with most wireless speakers – with Evo One, every seat in the room is treated to glorious sound,” the corporate instructed us in an e mail.
Cambridge Audio feels the Evo One’s main mission is to be a top-notch music system (it even has a devoted phono enter for moving-magnet cartridge turntables), however with an out there HDMI ARC/eARC enter, it’s apparent that TV audio can be a part of its attraction.
With each dual-band Wi-Fi ac and Ethernet, the Evo One helps quite a lot of streaming choices together with Apple AirPlay 2, Google Cast, DLNA, Spotify Connect, and Tidal Connect. There’s additionally easy accessibility from Deezer and Qobuz apps. It’s additionally Roon-ready for people who’re followers of that music administration and streaming platform.
The speaker can assist quite a lot of music file codecs from streaming companies, your native community, or an hooked up storage machine utilizing the USB-A port on the rear. These embody WAV, FLAC, ALAC, AIFF, DSD (DSF and DFF), WMA, MP3 (CBR and VBR), AAC, HE AAC and AAC+ (CBR and VBR), plus OGG Vorbis.
When utilizing the optical or HDMI port, the onboard digital-to-analog converter (DAC) can decode as much as 24-bit/192kHz, however this goes as much as 32-bit/384kHz when accessing the USB port or your community music assortment, together with as much as DSD128.
One factor that we nonetheless want to determine is what sort of audio codecs the Evo One is ready to course of from a TV over HDMI eARC. The listed specs don’t embody any point out of Dolby Audio (both Dolby Digital 5.1 or Dolby Atmos), DTS:X, or any form of encompass sound codecs.
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