HotHardware: Yamaha has been creating sound bars for years now, and they’ve been growing increasingly popular in homes where size is a problem.
Apartments and one-bedroom studios haven’t been able enjoy true surround sound due to the inability to shove 5, 6 or more speakers into their cramped living space.
Sound bars have enabled those living places to enjoy faux surround sound, and these two new ones add even more to the mix.
The YSP-5100 and YSP-4100 are the company’s two newest Digital Sound Projectors, with each one using just a single speaker but “dozens” of audio beam drivers.
They’re designed to sit underneath the front of flat-panel HDTVs, and they include four 1080p-compatible HDMI inputs, UniVolume (for keeping the sound of TV programs and commercials and different sources at the same volume level), and one final kicker: yAired.
This is Yamaha’s own wireless technology, which enables iPods and iPhones to send music to the sound bar without any wires involved.
Unfortunately, neither comes cheap. The 5100 is priced at $2199.95 (€1,527), and the 4100 is priced at 1899.95 (€1,319).
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