Somewhat out of nowhere, ASUS ROG <\/b>has added its first soundbar to its gaming audio collection, named the Gjallar<\/b>. For us non-Nordic folk, ASUS says it\u2019s pronounced \u2018gal-ar\u2019 (strange, as the \u2018g\u2019 is usually silent in Scandinavian languages, but we digress).<\/p>\n
Not only is it ROG\u2019s first entry into the soundbar market \u2013 which is somewhat strange considering they\u2019ve been around for a while already \u2013 and in order to compete with the rest of the market, it brings 2.1.2 Dolby Atmos surround sound<\/b> to the mix.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The speaker setup on the Gjallar consists of four 50mm full-range drivers, two of which are upward-firing, two 27mm tweeters, and a separate 6.5-inch subwoofer. The subwoofer itself packs a couple tricks of its own; it supports 5GHz wireless connectivity<\/b>, so it can rest on the floor without being tethered to the rest of the Gjallar.<\/p>\n The Gjallar\u2019s subwoofer supports 5GHz connectivity, no wires needed.<\/p>\n Image: ASUS.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Also built-into the Gjallar are what ASUS calls Acoustic Echo Cancellation microphones. This is essentially a beamforming mic array that cancels out environmental noises and game audio to pick up your voice clearly.\u00a0<\/p>\n Beamforming arrays have been used in soundbars in the past (like the Creative Sound Blaster Katana V2X), but, as with all products launching nowadays, it\u2019s helped by a little AI magic.<\/p>\n The soundbar can be controlled via ASUS\u2019s Gear Link tool, which can be accessed via an app or the web, but then you\u2019d be missing out on the Control Hub<\/b> that comes with the Gjallar.\u00a0<\/p>\n Through the Control Hub, you can adjust volume and RGB lighting, scrub through EQ profiles (fine-tuning is done through Gear Link), change input sources and access microphone controls, with the main interface being an LCD with customisable animations.<\/p>\n The Gjallar\u2019s Control Hub includes a customisable LCD as the main interface.<\/p>\n Image: ASUS.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n As for connectivity, the ROG Gjallar sports the usual aux and optical ports, as well as Bluetooth 5.3. But being a gaming soundbar, it needs that little bit extra. Hence, you can find two HDMI 2.1<\/b> ports \u2013 one for input, and another for output, the latter with eARC <\/b>support and 4K@120Hz passthrough.<\/p>\n You can also find two USB-A ports for dongles or external storage. There\u2019s a USB-C port, too, but that\u2019s only for the Control Hub, no Power Delivery or audio output supported.<\/p>\n The ASUS ROG Gjallar will be available in stores beginning Q3 of this year, though we don\u2019t know it\u2019s exact price yet. We\u2019ll update this piece when we do, but it can\u2019t go much farther than S$300 if it wants to compete with the likes of Razer and Creative, who already have a bit more experience in this field than ROG does.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Somewhat out of nowhere, ASUS ROG has added its first soundbar to its gaming audio collection, named the Gjallar. For us non-Nordic folk, ASUS says…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[600,705,26414,16809,7762],"class_list":["post-68331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-asus","tag-gaming","tag-gjallar","tag-rogs","tag-soundbar","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Availability and Pricing<\/h2>\n
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