The LS500 is Epson's first 4K Laser TV projector and was built on a commercial UST platform. The only projector from the Laser TV Showdown not ranked here for audio is the Epson LS500. No one should mistake these for a permanent audio solution. These models all exhibited a high degree of midrange and high frequency clarity for both movies and music, suitably loud maximum volume and good dynamic control, and sufficiently good spatial rendering (to the extent you can apply that term to a tiny soundbar).īelow these, I identified three Tier 2 performers that were a relatively small step down but still quite good for a projector, with the kind of detail, dynamics, and soundstaging on both movies and music that would also make them easy to live with day to day.īeyond these were five Tier 3 performers that were an embarrassingly steep step down from the others. The AWOL Vision LT-3500 was also excellent and part of this "Tier 1" group. I'll explain how I did the testing, but to give you a sense of the results, the projectors whose sound was engineered by a brand-name audio company were typically the best in the lot-specifically the Formovie Theater system developed by Bowers & Wilkins, and the XGIMI Aura, VAVA Tri-Chroma, and ViewSonic X2000-4K systems engineered by Harman/Kardon. As a long-time audiophile and experienced audio reviewer, I felt fully qualified to conduct and judge this round on my own. To find out, I rounded up the same projector samples that appeared in the Showdown and faced them off purely on audio quality.
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