Marshall Launches Compact New Soundbar And Optionally available Wireless Subwoofer

Having introduced a little bit of traditional rock and roll power to the soundbar scene with its debut Heston 120 soundbar again in May, Marshall has swiftly adopted that up with two additions to its new ‘TV Sound’ product vary within the form of the Heston 60 compact soundbar and Heston Sub 200 wi-fi subwoofer.

The Marshall Heston 60 soundbar is designed to be used with smaller TVs or in smaller rooms than the beforehand launched Heston 120

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The Heston 60 soundbar fortunately follows the identical distinctively Marshall design cues because the Heston 120, full with tactile supplies, gold accents for its distinctive on-bar management buttons and Marshall brand, and a richly textured material speaker cowl, however applies them to a way more compact chassis in a position to match underneath smaller TVs or into smaller rooms. All whereas persevering with, says Marshall, to ship ”big sound”.

Available in a cream color choice in addition to black, the Heston 60 rounds out its comparatively life-style focus by supporting twin mounting choices, in order that it may be positioned flat in opposition to the wall or sat on a TV bench. In truth, the Heston 60’s brand and management panel labels are each magnetically connected, in order that they be moved on the soundbar’s bodywork to fit your most popular set up place.

The Heston 60 additionally advantages from Marshall’s distinctive Repairability characteristic, with its Fret, end-caps, drivers and PCBAs all being replaceable if any of them get broken.

Tucked beneath that particular Marshall exterior is a 5.1-channel speaker configuration (incorporating two three-inch woofers and 5 1.25-inch full vary drivers), powered by 56W of complete audio energy and overlaying a claimed frequency vary of 45Hz-20kHz. The Heston 60 consists of each Dolby Atmos and DTS-X decoding in its audio format help, in addition to playback of the SBC, LC3, AAC Mpeg4, ALAC, FLAC, LPCM, Ogg Vorbis and WMA/WMA9 audio file codecs.

Wi-Fi streaming is supported on the Heston 60 with immediate entry to Spotify, and simple to arrange entry to AirPlay, GoogleCast, and Tidal Connect. Plus there’s Bluetooth (5.3) help utilizing the brand new Auracast system, in addition to wired connections within the form of a single eARC-capable HDMI port, a 3.5mm AUX enter, an RCA Mono subwoofer line out, and a USB-C slot.

The Heston 60 could be managed through the Marshall App should you can resist utilizing these cute on-bar management buttons, with app choices obtainable together with fine-tuning EQ settings and balancing sound ranges.

While you’ll be able to add a subwoofer to the Heston 60 and 120 soundbars through their RCA subwoofer line out connections, Marshall’s new Heston Sub 200 is designed to provide you a approach of including Marshall-tuned bass to the Heston 60 and Heston 120 soundbars wirelessly, utilizing Bluetooth LE Audio know-how.

As effectively as being straightforward to position anyplace in your room due to it not needing a bodily connection to the soundbars, the Heston Sub 200 additionally takes its design cues from the Heston 120 and 60, giving your room an extra dose of Marshall’s aesthetic DNA full with bodily set-up and quantity knob controls and replaceable Fret, toes, drivers and PCBAs. It could be managed from the identical Marshall App you should utilize to manage the Heston 60 and 120 soundbars, too.

The Heston Sub 200 carries two 5.25-inch subwoofers fed by 2 x 120W Class-D amplifiers, and is claimed to be able to delivering a 30-150Hz frequency response vary.

The Heston 60 and Heston Sub 200 will go on sale from September 23 at your native territory’s Marshall web site, priced at $699.99/£499.99 and $699.99/£429.99 respectively, earlier than opening as much as different choose retailers from September 30.

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