How Dolby Atmos can turn your home into an actual home theater

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Dolby Atmos technology enables movie theater-quality sound. Here’s how to experience it.

Our story opens in a living room. Our main character walks through the front door and heads straight to the couch. We can tell by their body language: It’s been a long day, and they’re ready to dive into a movie. They start scrolling through their favorite streaming services until they find the film that’s just right. They hit the lights and hit play.

The titles roll. The opening fanfare begins. But what should be a stirring orchestra, thundering bass, and roaring brass falls kind of … flat.

Talk about an unwelcome plot twist: The lack of immersive surround sound is spoiling the whole movie theater vibe.

Thankfully, there’s an audio technology designed to deliver theater-inspired surround sound—the kind that can help turn your home into a home theater. It’s called Dolby Atmos.

What is Dolby Atmos?

Dolby Atmos is a revolutionary new way to experience sound—brought to you by Dolby Inc., a technology company that’s spent 60 years at the forefront of audio innovation.

To create Atmos, Dolby’s engineers set out to fix a problem with a lot of surround sound systems: a lack of immersion. Traditionally, surround sound speakers only operated on a single plane. Movies and TV would sound like they were coming either from in front of or behind you—nothing in between.

What does Dolby Atmos do?

Dolby Atmos unlocks dimensionality. You will hear sound that’s above you, below you, and to the side of you, as well as in front of or behind you. Surround sound will actually, truly, surround an entire room.

And when you combine all these possibilities, as Dolby Atmos does, you get an audio experience that’s crazy immersive. A movie’s score will wrap you up in every note. Sound effects are pinpoint perfect, so when the axe murderer comes creeping up the stairs, you’re going to hear them right behind you. So keep a tight grip on the popcorn bowl, because spatially, Dolby Atmos makes your movies sound much more like real life.

What are the best Dolby Atmos speakers?

Dolby Atmos is a spatial sound technology that’s built into all kinds of products, from headphones to speakers to laptops and phones. No matter what, it guarantees a more sophisticated, immersive experience. But imagine how movies would sound if you combined Dolby technology with proprietary audio features that amplified Atmos’ capabilities even further. Well, you don’t need to just imagine it. Because we made the JBL Bar 1300XMK2—a premium soundbar that unites our Hi-Fi innovations with Dolby Atmos to create a one-of-a-kind audio experience.

Why should I get a JBL Bar 1300XMK2?

The JBL Bar 1300XMK2 brings Dolby Atmos into your home in the most vivid way possible. With six upfiring speakers built into the bar itself, plus a set of powerful, detachable wireless rear speakers you can place anywhere you want, this product has everything you need to make your favorite movies feel just like they do in the theater.

But it’s not just the construction of the JBL Bar 1300XMK2 that makes it one of the best Dolby Atmos-equipped speakers out there. It’s this bar’s built-in, fully proprietary JBL technologies that take Atmos to the next, next level. JBL MultiBeam™, for example, offers an even wider soundstage by projecting Atmos-quality sound to every corner of your room—creating a natural multi-speaker effect from the main soundbar alone. When you add this product’s detachable rear speakers on top of that, you might as well be living in your favorite movie.

In other words, those superheroic punches are gonna land like haymakers, and that rom-com score might just make you cry. Though you’ll probably tell your girlfriend that something got in your eye. With 1570W max output and a 12” subwoofer, it won’t just be the audio immersion that turns your home into a walk-in movie theater—it’ll be the serious volume and booming bass you can reach for when the moment strikes.

But all that power doesn’t mean this speaker lacks precision. Thanks to two other proprietary features available with the JBL Bar 1300XMK2, your Dolby Atmos soundscape will come to life with a level of subtlety and clarity you’ll need to hear to believe. With SmartDetails, every single effect, no matter how small, will have a clear place within your audio mix. From faraway shouts to creaking doors, your ears will catch every single thing the director intended. Then there’s PureVoice 2.0, which automatically optimizes dialogue levels based on the sound in the scene, meaning you’ll never miss a plot twist again.

To top it all off, the JBL Bar 13000XMK2’s detachable rear speakers are entirely wireless and entirely awesome. Equipped with serious battery life, these satellite speakers are ready to dish out theater-quality audio to every corner of your room for hours on end. And when those baddies do need a charge, the answer is simple: Just stick them back on the main bar overnight to get them charged up for your next binge sesh or movie marathon.

Now, let’s cut back to our main character. It’s a new scene. They’re back in the living room. But this time, there’s a JBL Bar 1300XMK2 under their TV. They just hit play, and an immersive sonic landscape surrounds them. This is going to be good. Can someone pass the popcorn?

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