LG and Dolby partner to release the first FlexConnect soundbar

Dolby Atmos FlexConnect exertion debuted this year pinch the TCL Z100 speakers, and now we’re getting our first FlexConnect soundbar acknowledgment to LG. The caller H7 soundbar — which runs connected the aforesaid Alpha 11 Gen 3 spot arsenic LG’s OLEDs and new Micro RGB LED — is simply a portion of the LG Sound Suite, a modular location audio strategy the institution will debut astatine CES 2026. In summation to the soundbar, the Sound Suite will see the M5 and M7 situation speakers and the W7 subwoofer. All of the speakers characteristic Peerless Audio components.

The 2 main drawbacks of TCL’s Dolby FlexConnect implementation were the limitation of only allowing 4 connected speakers, including a sub, and the request for a 2025 QM bid TCL TV. So you needed to prime betwixt amended sound sum pinch a 4th speaker aliases much bass capacity pinch a sub. LG’s Sound Suite, connected the different hand, will let you to link the soundbar pinch up to 4 situation speakers and a subwoofer for a imaginable 13.1.7-channel system.

And while the speakers tin beryllium utilized pinch a compatible LG TV (including the 2026 premium LG TV lineup and 2025’s C5 and G5 OLEDs), it isn’t required. It’s imaginable to usage the H7 soundbar pinch immoderate TV — aliases without — and person it enactment arsenic what’s called the lead instrumentality to link the situation speakers and sub. LG says location are 27 different speaker configurations possible, from utilizing 2 speakers arsenic a stereo brace up to the afloat strategy pinch soundbar, surrounds, and sub.

In my acquisition pinch the TCL Z100, calibrating FlexConnect speakers to your abstraction is besides fast. Once they’re successful spot and plugged in, a short philharmonic clip is played for a fewer seconds and past setup is complete. The strategy is capable to cognize wherever the speakers are placed and really to optimize the situation and Atmos sound for your room. With different room correction software, the process tin return overmuch longer, requiring taking sound readings from aggregate locations successful the room.

LG is utilizing ultra-wideband exertion to set the saccharine spot based connected your listening position that it’s calling Sound Follow. What will beryllium absorbing to spot pinch the LG Sound Suite’s Dolby FlexConnect implementation is really customizable it is aft setup (for instance, adjusting subwoofer levels).

I’ll beryllium proceeding the strategy astatine CES and scheme connected reviewing the strategy erstwhile it’s disposable to spot really good the exertion translates into a home.