JVC has debuted a duo of affordable soundbar home theater systems. Both offer new wireless technology options designed to make it easy to get movie theater sound from your HDTV without cluttering up your media room with a bunch of stringy wires.
The TH-BA3 is a dual wireless soundbar system that offers 5.1 channel surround sound powered with 280 watts. It includes a sound bar, wireless subwoofer, left and right wireless rear speakers and a wireless receiver.
The sound bar has four speakers, two for the center channel and one each for the left and right channels. The sound bar also houses the transmitter for the wireless speakers, power amp and surround decoder which decodes Dolby Digital, DTS and Dolby ProLogic II signals. It has one analog and two optical inputs.
JVC TH-BS7
The new TH-BS7 is JVC’s slim and trim offering to complement the latest flat panel displays. The soundbar measure only 1.4 inches tall and it is matched with a wall mountable amplifier/control unit and wireless subwoofer. All three components are clad in a high tech silver finish.
The TH-BS7 gets is trim profile by utilizing JVC’s own Direct Drive speaker technology that is designed to use a unique voice coil design and strong neodymium magnets to deliver outstanding sound quality and a broad soundfield from a super-slim speaker. This allows the TH-BS7’s soundbar to produce a frequency range of 200 – 20,000 Hz that falls to just 200 -“ 10,000 Hz at 360 degrees off-axis. Four JVC Direct Drive speakers, left and right main channels and left and right surround channels, are each driven by 20 watts.
The system’s amplifier/control unit measures 1.2 inches deep and can be wall mounted. It decodes Dolby Digital, DTS and Dolby Pro Logic II, and offers one analog and three optical digital inputs. The system’s wireless subwoofer features a six-inch woofer powered by a 100-watt amplifier.
Pricing and Availability
With the budget conscious in mind,both of the new systems will go on sale this month. They are priced at $549.95 for the JVC TH-BA3 and $599.95 for the JVC TH-BS7.