Klipsch Cinema 1200 Dolby Atmos Home Theater Sound Bar with Wireless Subwoofer and Wireless Surround Speakers, 1067536 | Audio Advice

The Cinema 1200 Dolby Atmos Sound Bar, with 1200 watts of power and integrated, discrete height speakers in the sound bar and surrounds, brings decades of professional cinema acoustic research and development to your home with the same power, dynamics, and detail as the movie theater. Dolby Atmos technology brings sound to life from all directions, including overhead, to fill a home theater with astonishing clarity, detail, and depth.

More Info. & Price

4-Piece Bundled Kit — Includes Sub Plus Surrounds

The Cinema 1200 represents substantial value up-front for the initial investment. For $1,499, you get a soundbar, a powerful wireless sub, plus wireless surround speakers that completely cover you in a true 5.1.4 “bubble” of Dolby Atmos sound.

Future Ready — eARC, 8K HDR & Dolby Vision Compatible

eARC gives you true Dolby Atmos without compression & simplifies the way you control your TV. Finally, you can narrow down your remote control options to just one. HDMI 2.1 readies your setup with 8K capabilities from the 8K pass-through for high-end TVs, so your bar is ready for the future. If your TV supports eARC, all you’ll have to do is connect an HDMI cable from your TV to the Cinema 1200 soundbar, and you are done.

Klipsch Horn-loaded Performance

The bar’s array of front-facing high output drivers are mated to Klipsch’s special horn-loaded speakers & powered by 1200 watts of total system power to take the efficiency of the tweeters to the max, allowing more output for crystal clear sound.

Company & Product Overview

Almost 75 years ago, a tiny speaker company carried out its day-to-day operations inside of a tin shed in Hope, Arkansas. In 1946, that shed belonged to Paul Klipsch, who had an idea for a speaker that was pretty radical for the time.

With 10 US patents under his belt from his work as an electrical engineer, Paul experimented with many designs before he came up with a large speaker he called the “Klipschorn.” Now, more than 70 years later, the Klipschorn design is in its 6th revision and the speaker company that began inside of a tin shed is now one of the most famous in the world.

At Audio Advice, we have reviewed several Klipsch speakers before their official release, including the extremely popular Klipsch RP-600M Bookshelf Speakers and The Fives Powered Speakers. Today, we are reviewing a totally new product category from Klipsch that follows in Paul’s footsteps and his design principles — but in a much different format.

Horn-loaded Soundbar for the Modern Home Theater

The Klipsch Cinema 1200 Dolby Atmos Sound Bar with wireless sub and surrounds provide the total package with Klipsch’s horn-loaded performance, plus everything you’ll need for a cinematic experience in your home.

However, Klipsch put a few nice surprises under the hood to make Cinema 1200 really stand out. Klipsch reached out to us to help their engineers test and develop features for the new product. If you are looking for the best performance with features that will future-proof your setup in one convenient package, we think Klipsch has a solution that will let you enjoy true 5.1.4 Dolby Atmos for an impressive price point.

Design & Build Quality

As the flagship model in the Cinema Series, Klipsch gives you a soundbar, a powerful wireless sub, plus wireless side surround speakers for $1,499. Since side surrounds and a subwoofer are optional add-ons in many other Dolby Atmos systems, the Cinema 1200 represents substantial value up-front for the initial investment. It’s important to point out the surrounds bundled in this system are not the same as the Surround 3 side speakers that are sold separately with some of the less expensive models in the series. The surrounds here include the up-firing speakers and Klipsch made them exclusively for the Cinema 1200.

The sub has a black lacquer finish that allows just a little bit of the natural wood grain to show through. It stands a little over 20-inches tall, about 15 ½-inches wide, and almost 16-inches deep. On the back, there’s a push-button labeled “Pair” that will reset the wireless connection, a set of RCA inputs and outputs labeled “LFE” that will let you wire up the subwoofer to a stereo receiver’s subwoofer output, and a power connection that plugs into the wall.

The bar spans 54-inches wide, almost 3 inches tall, and about 6-inches deep — visually, this will look great with TVs that are 50-inches or wider. A wall-mounting template plus the brackets to mount the bar to your wall are included in the box. If placed under your TV, it’s always a good idea to separate the bar from the TV to give the upward-firing drivers enough clearance to direct the sound up to your ceiling.

The bar, itself, is almost entirely covered in grille cloth with the exception of the rear amp panel, and the brushed aluminum exposed top panels above each 1-inch Tractrix® Horn-loaded tweeter. The end caps are interchangeable with the walnut end caps that are also included. These snap onto both sides of the bar, and we prefer the retro-look of the walnut with this — especially with the sub’s black lacquer aesthetics.

We also really like how the bar, sub, and surrounds, are all made from real wood materials, making them constructed more like Klipsch’s high-end theater speakers — not another black plastic soundbar. Given the sheer size of the bar, the sub, and the wired surround speakers, this is not a system you can easily hide — but this system will make people know how serious you are about sound.

Additional information

Weight

42.00 lbs

Warranty

1 year electronics, 3 years non-electronics (soundbar); 2 years electronics, 5 years non-electronics (subwoofer)

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