- Says here, team lift.
But there's no me in team
or there is a me in team?
You know what?
I got this.
This, oh! Is the Vizio Elevate.
It actually has automatically upward firing
rotating speakers for a more immersive listening experience
and they have sponsored this video on ShortCircuit.
Don't mind the LTT set.
It was just we needed a bigger one
'cause this thing is absolutely freakin' a monster
and we're gonna check it out.
I actually need a minute first though,
I do not understand this packaging.
It's right side up, right?
Okay, now we go like this.
It's right side up.
Now we go like this.
It's right side, oh wait.
Am I supposed to have it stood up while I open it?
Look, this is sideways.
Oh, scan here for...
A moment please.
Welcome to Vizio Elevate easy setup.
Unbox it, power it up.
Wait, what?
That's the whole instruction.
I'm just an ape.
I don't know how to unbox it.
Now the big highlights for Vizio here
are obviously gonna be the sound quality,
support for Dolby Atmos, and the fact that
in a box you are getting an entire
and they've specifically instructed me not to say,
5.1.4 speaker setup.
So that's five channels surround one channel of subwoofer,
and four more channels of upward speakers.
And the way they achieve that is of course
with those rotating upward firing drivers
that I was talking about before.
So we'll get to the rears
and the subwoofer in a moment here.
I really wanna take a look at the Elevate soundbar.
Wow, okay, yeah,
just didn't quite find the middle there.
It's got a nice style to it actually,
kind of rounded up the front,
pretty minimalistic looking
if you're into that sort of thing.
So either these end pieces will fire towards you
if you're not listening to DTS:X or Dolby Atmos content,
or if you are, they'll rotate up
so that they can bounce off of your ceiling
and sound like they're coming from above you.
Can I just say how adorable that is
that you don't see any branding on this thing whatsoever.
Unless you are actually listening to Dolby Atmos
or DTS:X content?
So it's like,
"Hey, we're in branded media formats listening time now.
"Turn it up, suckers!"
In terms of mounting, you got lots of options,
you got little rubber feet,
you got little threaded doodads in here,
if you wanted to get it wall mounted,
or whatever the case may be.
And in terms of IO, you've got everything you'd expect,
a couple 3.5 millimeter jacks.
Really they still got an optical jack,
oh that's nice.
Then over here we've got a USB port
as well as three HDMI ports.
One of these goes out to your TV,
it's got support for eARC.
So there'll be no compromises in terms of audio quality,
as long as your other devices support
enhanced audio return channel.
And then two more for alternate inputs,
which is nice because even now in 2021,
there are high end sound bars out there
that don't have a built in HDMI switch,
which is really frustrating because,
because you're using eARC,
you actually take up one of the HDMI inputs on your TV.
And if you wanted an AV receiver,
you probably wouldn't be going for like the clean,
simplistic soundbar approach.
So it's really nice to have those extra HDMI inputs
for all of your devices.
Like maybe you're the kind of household
that just can't decide whether you want a PlayStation 5
or an Xbox series.
Maybe you just need both.
Eight inch downward firing driver.
And of course, very simple IO.
Now, I was a little dismayed
when I saw what looked like proprietary connections
for the left and right satellite speakers.
But it appears that they're actually
just little custom packaged RCA cables
that are twin so that they're in a nice low profile cable.
So I'm happy 'cause that means that if you wanted to,
you could extend them
and use something else off the shelf if you needed to.
But this is a little bit more palatable
when it comes to wife approval factor.
What I'm really waiting to see now
is what the mechanisms like for tilting those speakers up
and like, I don't know,
is it gonna make that much of a difference?
You got 18 drivers in the soundbar.
So like, it doesn't matter that much.
If some of them go up here, some of them go over there?
We're gonna see.
Just like the soundbar,
the surrounds have a couple of mounting choices.
So you can just plunk them onto something
with the rubber foot
or you can screw the main
with the threaded hole right there.
I mean, we're just setting this up to audition them.
So I'm gonna go ahead and put a little something like that.
Okay, I found my remote control.
I got my wall mount brackets and screw...
I gotta talk to those inventory guys.
I keep telling them, you don't have to put a label
on it every single stupid thing.
It's ridiculous.
Okay, fine.
Got the two different options for 3.5 mil
so you can either go RCA
or just into a regular headphone jack.
Got the remote.
That explains why there's no knobs or adjustment dials
on the back of the subwoofer.
You change all that through here.
Oh or, I mean, I guess there are physical buttons as well.
Not everything's on there though, you can pair Bluetooth,
volume up and down, power and change the source.
But if you want to adjust EQ or set effects
or whatever that's in here.
Look at that, it's got a little screen.
See? Look, Vizio.
Hello?
To hear the Elevate audio effects
we could have actually forced it
to simulate the top channels
but because the PlayStation 5 doesn't support Dolby Atmos,
we had to turn to our good friend the Xbox series X.
Now if we're in the menu, I don't think...
Oh, look at that!
Huh, I didn't even have to open up Forza Horizon 4
in order to get it going.
(engine revving)
There's no doubt you give up some of the directness
of the front firing speakers,
but it's a fuller sound.
Very interesting.
Top firing for this genre, maybe not so much,
but you actually don't have to use it.
So if we go back into that effects menu,
a little bit wide.
There we go.
(engine revving)
We can opt for this.
Just get that wider soundstage.
Not a bad looking little setup.
Of course the mouse pad is integral, lttstore.com.
Thanks again to Vizio for sponsoring this video.
Thanks to you guys for checking out the Vizio Elevate.
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