says here team lift but there's no me and team
ah or there is a mian team you know what
i got this this oh
is the vizio elevate it actually has
automatically upward firing rotating speakers for a more immersive listening
experience and they've sponsored this video on ShortCircuit don't mind the uh LTT
set it was just we needed a bigger one because this thing is absolutely freaking
a monster and we're gonna check it out
i actually need a minute first though i do not understand this packaging
it's right side up right huh okay now we
go like this
it's right side up now we go like this
it's right side oh wait am i supposed to
have it stood up while i open it look this is sideways oh scan here for
one moment please welcome to vizio elevate
easy setup unbox it power it up
wait what that's the whole instruction
i'm just an ape i don't know how to unbox it
now the big highlights for vizio here are obviously going to be the sound
quality support for dolby atmos and the fact
that in a box you are getting an entire and they've specifically instructed me
not to say 5.1.4
speaker setup so that's five channels surround
one channel of subwoofer and four
more channels of upward speakers and the
way they achieve that is of course with those rotating upward
firing drivers that i was talking about before so we'll get to the rears and the subwoofer
in a moment here i really want to take a look at the elevate sound bar
whoa okay yeah i just didn't quite find the middle there
it's got a nice style to it actually kind of rounded at the front
pretty minimalistic looking if you're into that sort of thing so
either these end pieces will fire towards you if you're
not listening to dtsx or dolby atmos
content or if you are they'll rotate up so that
they can bounce off of your ceiling and sound like they're coming from above
you can i just say how adorable that is that you don't see any branding on this thing whatsoever
unless you are actually listening to dolby atmos or dtsx content
so it's like hey we're in
branded media formats listening time now
turn it up suckers in terms of mounting you got lots of options you got little
rubber feet you got little threaded doodads in here if you wanted to get it wall mounted or whatever the
case may be and in terms of i o you've got everything you'd expect couple three and
a half millimeter jacks you really they've still got an optical
jack oh that's not nice and over here we've got a usb port as
well as three HDMI ports one of these goes out
to your tv it's got support for erc so there'll be no compromises in terms of
audio quality as long as your other devices support enhanced audio return channel and then
two more for alternate inputs which is nice because
even now in 2021 there are high-end sound bars
out there that don't have a built-in HDMI switch which is really frustrating
because because you're using e-arc you actually take up one of the HDMI inputs
on your tv and if you wanted an av receiver you probably wouldn't be going
for like the clean simplistic soundbar approach so it's
really nice to have those extra HDMI inputs for all
of your devices like maybe you're the kind of household that just can't decide whether you want
a playstation 5 or an xbox series maybe you just need both eight inch
downward firing driver and of course very simple i o now i was
a little dismayed when i saw what looked like proprietary connections for the left and
right satellite speakers but it appears that they are actually
just little custom packaged rca cables
that are twinned so that they're in a nice low profile cable so
i'm happy because that means that if you wanted to you could
extend them and use something else off the shelf if you needed to
but this is a little bit more palatable when it comes to
wife approval factor what i'm really waiting to see now is what the mechanism
is like for tilting those speakers up and like i
don't know is it gonna make that much of a difference you've got 18 drivers in the
sound bar so like it's gonna matter that much if some of
them go up here some of them go over there we're gonna see just like the sound bar
the surrounds have a couple of mounting choices so you can just
plonk them onto something with the rubber foot or you can screw them in
with the threaded hole right there i mean we're just setting this up to audition them so
i'm gonna go ahead and put a little something like that okay i
found my remote control i got my wall mount brackets and screw
i gotta talk to those inventory guys i keep telling them you don't have to put
a label on every single stupid thing
it's ridiculous uh okay fine
got the two different options for three and a half mil so you can either go
rca or just into a regular headphone jack
got the remote that explains why there's uh no knobs or adjustment dials on the
back of the subwoofer you change all that through here oh or
i mean i guess there are physical buttons as well not everything's on there though you compare bluetooth
volume up and down power and change the source but if you want to adjust eq or
set effects or whatever that's in here look at that it's got a little screen
they look vizio hello to hear the elevate audio effects
we could have actually forced it to simulate the
top channels but because the playstation 5 doesn't support all the atmos we had to
turn to our good friend the xbox series x now if we're in the
menu i don't think oh look at that huh i didn't even have to open up forza
horizon 4 in order to get it going
there's no doubt you give up some of the directness of the front firing speakers
but it's a fuller sound
very interesting top firing for this genre
maybe not so much but you actually don't
have to use it so if we go back into that effect menu
elevate wide there we go we can opt for this
just get that wider sound stage not a bad looking little setup
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thanks again to vizio for sponsoring this video thanks to you guys for checking out the vizio elevate
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