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Devialet Dione

With its first ever Dolby Atmos soundbar, premium French audio brand Devialet is striking out, elevating the form with a lavish design and high-minded concept that endeavours to convince customers that just because they want a simple, single TV speaker doesn’t mean they can’t do so in style.

A one-box Dolby Atmos soundbar with no options to add an external subwoofer or rear speakers, the Dione instead relies on eight long-throw mid-woofers to deliver an impressively extended bass performance that reaches down to a claimed 24Hz, as well as two side-firing 41mm drivers for surround effects.

The Dione also has a distinct build quite unlike any soundbar we have ever seen before, primarily due to the presence of a separate, external 41mm aluminium drive unit in an orb that sits in a vortex-like trough

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