Roomwake One

Features

• Thin TVs are great to look at. Hard to hear.

  There’s no room in a thin TV for real speakers, so they’re small and usually point down or backward, not at you.

• Voices from the front, toward you.

  Roomwake One sits under the screen and points two speakers straight at the couch. Then you choose how it sounds with one button.

• It sits under the screen and faces you

  17 inches wide and 2.5 inches tall: measure the gap under your screen first. Both drivers fire forward, aimed at the couch, not into the wall behind the TV.

• Three sound modes, one button

  Press the mode button on the remote to switch. There’s no screen on the bar, so you choose by ear: News is the one for talk-heavy shows.

• One optical cable to your TV

  Plug the included optical cable into your TV’s Optical / Digital Audio Out port and into the bar. Set the TV’s audio output to PCM. That’s the setup.

How to use it

1. 1

   Find the optical port

   Look on the back or side of your TV for a small square port labelled Optical, Digital Audio Out or SPDIF. That’s where the cable in the box goes. No optical port? A 3.5 mm audio out or Bluetooth works too.

2. 2

   Check the space

   The bar is 17 inches wide and 2.5 inches tall. It’s sized for 32″–43″ TVs and works under 50–55″ ones, where it looks small. Measure the gap between your stand and the bottom of the screen: if it’s under 2.5 inches, the bar may cover the picture or the TV’s remote sensor, so wall-mount it with the included kit.

3. 3

   Set the TV to PCM

   In your TV’s sound menu, choose the optical output and set Digital audio out to PCM. The bar plays stereo PCM; if the TV sends Dolby or DTS you’ll hear crackling or nothing.