Razer’s new Leviathan V2 X PC soundbar is a smaller, stripped-down model of its full-featured sibling that Razer launched earlier this yr. The 15.7-inch soundbar comes at a less expensive $99.99 value level however nonetheless gives an honest quantity of options for the fee.
In phrases of audio, you may count on two full-range drivers and two passive radiators with a most quantity output of 90dB when one meter away. It’s lacking the subwoofer and THX Spatial Audio that the usual $249 Leviathan V2 comes with, so that you may miss out on more immersive, bass-rich audio that my colleague Cameron Faulkner mentioned “sounds fairly improbable” in his assessment.
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Like its more costly counterpart, the Leviathan V2 X comes with customizable RGB lighting results — however as an alternative of 18 totally different lighting zones, you get 14. The Leviathan V2 X additionally has a USB-C port that you should use to energy it by your pc, monitor, or energy brick. It helps Bluetooth 5.0 as properly, in case you need to wirelessly join it to your cellphone or pc (if not, there’s a USB audio enter).
Although the Leviathan V2 X lacks a number of the bells and whistles the usual Leviathan soundbar has, it nonetheless looks like a budget-friendly possibility in case you’re in search of a compact supply of audio to your PC setup, but it surely’s exhausting to inform without really getting our palms on it. The system is available for preorder now, with shipments beginning on September twenty eighth.
Update September twentieth, 5:24PM ET: Updated so as to add more data about the soundbar’s energy and audio connectivity.