Razer’s Leviathan V2 Professional soundbar tracks your head to optimize sound

Soundbars won’t be the audio system of selection for many desktop setups, however Razer is making an attempt is providing a brand new one for individuals who don’t need to mess with headsets or finicky encompass sound techniques. The favored gaming tech firm simply introduced the Leviathan V2 Professional at CES 2023, the most recent addition to its current vary of soundbars designed to offer compact, low-profile audio for PC players.

Created in partnership with THX and Audioscenic, Razer claims that the Leviathan V2 Professional can envelop a person with “3D audio” by combining beamforming encompass sound with head-tracking AI know-how. A built-in IR digicam can detect the person’s place, permitting the soundbar to optimize sound by adapting the audio beams to the listener’s place in actual time.

There are two modes out there for the 3D audio characteristic: THX Spatial Audio Digital Headset for stereo content material that allegedly mimics positional audio usually present in headsets and THX Spatial Audio Digital Audio system for multi-channel audio that fills a room like a house theatre system. Given it is a Razer product, it additionally comes with customizable Chroma RGB lighting results throughout 30 totally different lighting zones — dwarfing the 18 zones you get on the usual Leviathan V2 soundbar.

The Razer Leviathan V2 Professional additionally comes with a subwoofer to reinforce bass. A devoted 3.5mm enter for the subwoofer is included on the rear of the soundbar, alongside a second 3.5mm port for headphones, an influence adapter port, and a single USB-C port to hook up with your PC. The Leviathan V2 Professional additionally helps Bluetooth 5.0 if you wish to wirelessly join it to your laptop or cell machine.

Fascinating options and funky lighting apart, pricing goes to be the toughest promote for the Leviathan V2 Professional. Beginning at $399.99, it’s significantly costlier than each the usual Leviathan V2 ($249.99) and Leviathan V2 X ($99.99), however you do no less than get extra ports with this newest mannequin. The inclusion of the three.5mm headphone jack (which is lacking from each of the opposite Leviathan fashions) is sweet, however the lack of HDMI enter and HDMI output/ARC port is a little bit disappointing at this value.

The Leviathan V2 Professional shall be available for purchase from February 2023 (if in case you have deep sufficient pockets for the acquisition).