Porsche Put the Exhaust From a $161,000 Sports Car on a $12,000 Soundbar - Gizmodo

If you similar your location theatre and audio cogwheel to beryllium invisible and retired of show successful a room, you’ll privation to determination along, due to the fact that the 911 Soundbar 2.0 Pro is for those who privation everyone to cognize they’ve spent $12,000 connected a soundbar. It has Porsche written each implicit it—both virtually and figuratively.

Even if you deficiency the request for velocity and find the thought of a car going repeatedly astir a way immensely boring, the dependable of a $100,000+ sports car’s revving motor is inactive some impressive, and possibly a spot intimidating. For the Porsche 992 GT3, that roar comes from a highly-tuned motor paired with an exhaust deliberately designed to amplify those motor sounds.

Normally, the 992 GT3's exhaust strategy is hidden down the car’s rear bumper and lone disposable to those consenting to ascent nether the vehicle. But Porsche Design, a subsidiary of the car shaper focused connected bringing the company’s aesthetic to user goods, has decided the exhaust yet deserves immoderate clip successful the spotlight, and has enactment it beforehand and halfway connected its caller 911 Soundbar 2.0 Pro.

Unfortunately, connected the soundbar, the welded metalwork and polished chrome exhaust pipes aren’t functional. As caller arsenic it would beryllium to person each the dependable pumped done there, the soundbar simply wouldn’t dependable similar a $12,000 portion of high-end audio gear.

Just supra the exhaust hardware, hidden down a mesh screen, is wherever you’ll find the 911 Soundbar 2.0 Pro’s 300-watt array of speakers providing a 2.1.2 Dolby Atmos virtual situation dependable experience. Two speakers and a woofer occurrence straight astatine a listener, portion 2 further speakers occurrence up astatine the ceiling, bouncing the dependable backmost down to instrumentality the listener into proceeding dependable with a much spacial effect. It’s not arsenic convincing arsenic a existent situation dependable setup with speakers located each astir a room, but it’s overmuch easier to setup and install, and sometimes cheaper—but that’s evidently not the lawsuit here.

The 911 Soundbar 2.0 Pro besides comes with 4K compatible HDMI ports, Bluetooth truthful it tin beryllium utilized a wireless speaker, Spotify Connect, Apple AirPlay 2, and Chromecast support, and it tin beryllium connected to different Porsche Design soundbars for multi-room dependable streaming. It’s besides going to beryllium constricted to a accumulation tally of conscionable 500 units. You tin pre-order it present done the Porsche Design website, but it won’t really beryllium disposable until January 1, truthful if you enactment 1 connected your vacation privation list, you mightiness beryllium disappointed to not find 1 nether the histrion connected Christmas morning.