hey, I'm JR, training manager here at Crutchfield, and this is the Klipsch Cinema 1200. It is a
powered home theater sound bar, and it's not just a powered home theater sound bar, it is Klipsch's
flagship model, their top-of-the-line powered home theater sound bar. There's a lot of speakers
here. In just the bar itself there are 11 drivers. There are two drivers in each of the
wireless surrounds, and a massive subwoofer. Lots of speakers to give you Dolby Atmos with a 5.1.4
speaker setup, and a ton of power. There's 1200 watts of power going on here, hence the model
name. In the sound bar itself we have 11 total speakers; we have left, center, and right channels,
and each of those channels has two three- inch oval mid-range drivers and a one-inch
tweeter mounted into a Klipsch Tractrix horn, giving you that classic Klipsch sound. It's loud,
it's awesome, it's rock-and-roll. There are also two upward-firing Dolby Atmos drivers. Those are
cerametallic woofers, and their job is to send sound up towards your ceiling to bounce back down
at you in your listening position for Dolby Atmos surround effects. That's that height channel, that
sound that makes it sound like rain is falling from your ceiling in a rainy scene in a movie.
It adds a total extra dimension to your home theater, and it works really well.
The sound bar has a dedicated center channel, which is going to be responsible for
primarily all of the dialogue in your movie. When your actors are on screen speaking, you want those
voices anchored to the screen, and you want them clear, and this has multiple dialogue enhancement
modes so that you can really dial it in to make sure you can hear every word of the movie while
not missing any of the surround sound and the background music and all the fun stuff.
This system comes with two wireless surround speakers that you can mount behind you, and
each of those speakers has a frontward-firing woofer and an upward-firing cerametallic
Dolby Atmos speaker, so four total speakers aimed up at your ceiling to give you those height,
those Dolby Atmos surround effects. The system also comes with a massive powered subwoofer. There's a
12-inch driver, it is down-firing, that sound hits the floor, dissipates all into your room,
and you have a ton of bass. So when you get those massive explosions, gunshots, car crashes, things
like that in a big action movie, you're going to feel it just as much as you're going to hear it.
To connect this powered sound bar, you're most likely going to connect it directly to your TV
using an HDMI cable. It has an HDMI with Enhanced Audio Return Channel, so whatever you're watching
on your TV, whether it's your over-the-air antenna, streaming apps, or anything plugged into any of
its HDMI inputs, the audio will get sent back down into the sound bar using an Enhanced Audio Return
Channel. So it's one HDMI connection for that. There are also two more HDMI 2.1 connections
on the back of the '1200 itself. You can plug your sources directly into the sound bar and then send
the video onto your TV if you would rather do that. It also has some old-school connections,
there's a TOSLINK, or optical digital input, as well as a minijack or analog audio input
for getting music or TV sound into the bar as well. So you've got a plethora of ways to get sound
into the bar. In addition to sounding great for TV and movies, this is also great for playing
music. Of course, Klipsch makes speakers that have been playing music for years; they know how to do that
in this form factor as well. And they make it pretty easy. It has Wi-Fi built in so that you can
use Chromecast or Spotify Connect to stream music from your apps over your Wi-Fi network. It also has
Bluetooth, so if you just want to send music to it from your phone the old-fashioned way, you can do
that as well. Klipsch also has a app that you can use to totally control it, and that app works from your
phone over Wi-Fi, so you have total control of the functions and the controls on the soundbar itself.
It also comes with a really nice remote control that lights up and has separate volume controls
for the overall volume as well as...you can also dial in the exact volume levels you want for
your wireless surround speakers and your subwoofer separately using the buttons on the remote control.
You can also wall-mount the sound bar itself. If you're wall-mounting your TV you might want your
bar placed on the wall right below it. It does come with two keyhole brackets that you can insert into
the back of the bar and hang it on the wall right below your TV. The surrounds come with quarter
20 threaded inserts; for optional wall-mounting brackets you might want to get some angled ones
so you can get those placed up a little higher angled right down at your listening position.
The system also comes with these black end caps on the sound bar itself. If you'd rather have a
wood grain or a walnut end cap, instead of the black it comes with two walnut end caps so you
can take those off and replace them if you would rather have wood grain to match your decor. So
this is the Klipsch Cinema 1200, Klipsch's best sound bar they've ever made. It is powered, you
don't need a home theater receiver. It sounds great for both movies as well as TV shows and music, and
basically whatever you want to play on it. It looks great, sounds amazing. If you have any questions
about this or anything else, get in touch with us here at Crutchfield. Go to crutchfield.com/contact,
you'll be able to talk live with one of our advisors over the phone or you can chat with them
online. You can also post your questions right here in this YouTube video; we do look at those, and we
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