Marantz’s new wireless speakers look like they belong in an art gallery

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If you bargain Marantz’s caller Horizon aliases Grand Horizon wireless speakers, they will apt go a taxable of speech successful your location earlier you ever move them on. Featuring a striking information style and a guidelines made of existent marble, and 3 colour choices (Midnight Sky, Moon Ray, and Marantz Champagne), nan accent connected creation is instantly apparent. They look for illustration sculptures and person prices to match: nan smaller Horizon is $3,500, while nan aptly named Grand Horizon goes for $5,500. And though they mightiness onslaught you arsenic nan cleanable gift for personification who already has everything, you won’t putting them nether nan character this twelvemonth — nan speakers won’t beryllium disposable until January 14, 2025.

Marantz Horizon and Grand Horizon successful Midnight Sky.

At nan halfway of some speakers is nan HEOS software that already powers nan multiroom audio of galore Denon, Marantz, and Onkyo components. The HEOS mobile app lets you power each of your HEOS-compatible products successful 1 interface (if you’ve ne'er utilized it, it’s very akin to Sonos and Wiim) positive you get in-app entree to a assortment of streaming euphony services for illustration Amazon Music, Deezer, Spotify, and Tidal, positive euphony from your individual postulation of integer tracks if they’re stored successful a network-accessible location.

Long-time fans of nan Marantz marque will statement that nan Horizon isn’t (as immoderate different publications person suggested) nan company’s first wireless speaker. That grant goes to nan now-discontinued 2013 MS7000 Marantz Consolette.

The speakers are compatible pinch hi-res stereo and multichannel up to 7.1 channel, 24-bit/192kHz arsenic good arsenic DSD128 (5.6Mhz). Marantz has included its civilization Marantz Mirage DSP for a assortment of imaginable alterations to nan sound.

The speakers besides support Spotify Connect, Apple AirPlay 2, and Bluetooth. You get beingness connections too: each speaker has a stereo RCA input, a integer optical port, an HDMI eARC port, positive a USB-C connector. The radial statement of nan drivers should nutrient immoderate absorbing spatial audio effects, and if you link nan speakers to a TV via HDMI eARC, they tin process Dolby Audio, including Dolby Atmos. Two matching Horizons tin beryllium stereo-paired wrong nan HEOS app.

Both models incorporated a cardinal subwoofer (the large disc successful nan middle), while further drivers are hidden down nan cloth grille of nan outer ring. The differences betwixt nan 2 models look erstwhile you look astatine their size, power, and driver configurations.

The Marantz Horizon is astir 15 inches successful diameter and conscionable complete 8 inches successful depth. It’s powered by a “Marantz Rise” GaN FET amplifier pinch 310 watts (745 watts peak) and location are six “Marantz Gravity” drivers successful total: 2 1-inch tweeters, 3 2-inch full-range drivers, and a azygous 6.5-inch subwoofer.

The bigger Grand Horizon has astir 20-inch diameter and is 10 inches deep. Its amp produces 370 watts (860 watts peak), with eight drivers: 3 1-inch tweeters, 4 3-inch full-range drivers, and nan azygous 8-inch subwoofer.

Marantz Horizon connected nan optional tripod.

Bolstering nan Horizon’s eye-catching looks is simply a hidden ringing of 100 concealed LEDs. These tin beryllium utilized to bespeak your chosen measurement level, and they respond arsenic you attack nan speaker acknowledgment to built-in proximity sensors. You tin exert much power complete nan lights utilizing Marantz AuraControl.

Finally, if request much power complete wherever your Horizon is placed, you tin optionally wall-mount it aliases bargain nan Marantz Horizon Tripod — a $700 walnut-finished level stand.