JBL Bar 9.1 review: Phenomenal performance, not so phenomenal price
With movie theaters still closed in most places, the home theater experience is more important than ever. A spiffy Atmos surround sound system can take your viewing experience to the next level, but maybe you don t want to run wires or have speakers permanently installed around your room. Well, that happens to be the niche JBL is targeting with the JBL Bar 9.1. It s an Atmos-enabled soundbar with a whopping 820W of power and detachable satellite speakers that you can place around the room when you need them. It also has full integration with Google s Chromecast platform, so you can manage it from the Home app. While the audio experience is great, the price is not. JBL wants a cool grand for the Bar 9.1, which is more than most people should pay for the convenience.
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Want to know a secret about smart speakers? The speaker itself doesn’t have to be all that smart.
When you ask your speaker to shuffle the latest Taylor Swift album or tell you the capital of Bolivia, that artificial intelligence magic happens on the company’s servers rather than inside the speaker enclosure sitting on your kitchen counter or family room shelf.
Outsourcing these functions to the cloud allows an inexpensive smart speaker to perform most smart functions just as well as a pricier top-of-the-line model.