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Round 2: "Mad Max: Fury Road" (Dolby Atmos) - official Dolby demo disc (2015) Round 1: "Amaze" (Dolby Atmos) - official Dolby demo disc (2015)

The respective retail price tags were also pasted on each soundbar, so that attendees could pick the soundbar that offered the overall "Best Value". Following which, the black cloth would be removed, showing everyone exactly which soundbars they were listening to at each point. At the end of the 3 rounds, they had to indicate the overall "Best Performance" soundbar in their score card. At the end of each round, they had to rank the soundbars based on how well they sounded (Good = 1 point, Better = 2 points, Best = 3 points). They listened to 3 rounds of different content played by the soundbars, all of which were covered in black cloth and labeled as "Soundbar A", "Soundbar B" and "Soundbar C". Lastly, the latest firmware versions were used for all soundbars.Īll attendees were given a score card at the beginning of each session. An Epson Home Cinema 2040 1080p 3D 3LCD Home Theater Projector was used to display the content, with video settings set at "1080p 60Hz". All soundbars were connected via HDMI 2.0 cables to identical Samsung UBD-K8500 4K UHD Blu-ray players, and audio settings were set "Bitstream unprocessed" for all content that was played.

Each soundbar was calibrated using C-weighted pink noise to output at 88 decibels SPL 1 meter, which is slightly louder than a commercial home theater. To ensure the fairest testing conditions, every variable other than the competing soundbars was made constant. Soundbars used on Day 2, and SFAS sessions, (sequence not in this order during battle): Soundbars used on Day 1, (sequence not in this order during battle): The listening battles during CES 2018 were held in an untreated living room (14ft x 17ft) at one of the Bellagio Penthouse Suites in Las Vegas, while the exclusive sessions to the San Francisco Audiophile Society (SFAS) members were conducted in an untreated garage (20ft x 23ft).ĭue to the tight timeline and overwhelming response, each listening battle session was limited to be a contest between 3 soundbars based on popularity of the votes gathered by the registered attendees at our event page. We wanted our attendees to vote based on listening to popular content in a real-world environment.