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What Hi-Fi?
What Hi-Fi?
Technology
Lewis Empson

Bose's new AI-embued Dolby Atmos soundbar lets you use open earbuds as surround speakers

Bose Smart Soundbar on a wooden media unit underneath a TV.

Bose is expanding its Smart Soundbar lineup once again, this time with a new step-down model that will sit below the Smart Soundbar Ultra. It is dropping the Ultra suffix, and it's cheaper too, making it more accessible for Bose fans – and it even has a unique feature for owners of the Bose Ultra Open Earbuds.

The Smart Soundbar is replacing the Smart Soundbar 600 in Bose's current roster, and it has a practically identical setup to that 2022 model. It measures 5.6cm tall and 69cm long, with five transducers packed inside a sleek, modern, minimalist chassis with a suave wraparound metal grille. This includes two side-firing racetrack transducers, a centre-channel tweeter and dual upward-firing drivers for Dolby Atmos height effects. 

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