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Producing thumping, boomy bass, the Devialet Dione brings audiophile-quality sound to living rooms and home theaters. It’s a very loud and versatile Dolby Atmos-enabled soundbar for movies, music, and TV shows.
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Product Snapshot
Overview
The Devialet Dione is a high-end 5.1.2 channel soundbar, which made its debut in 2022, offering excellent acoustics and Dolby Atmos for home theaters and living rooms.
Featuring a 5.1.2 configuration, this system provides a great auditory experience, just like the top speakers today. This soundbar gets really loud and boasts outstanding bass that will please movie and music enthusiasts.
Thanks to a room correction feature, this system automatically optimizes the sound and stands out from most of the best-rated soundbars. It has a self-contained design with a unique rotating center channel, providing a good 3D soundstage.
With one each of HDMI ARC, Optical, and Ethernet inputs, the soundbar provides effortless connectivity and boasts Bluetooth and Airplay. Examine our complete Devialet Dione review below and see our Denon Home soundbar 550 50 review if you need built-in Amazon Alexa.
Product testers love the bass-heavy sound profile (especially when wall-mounted) and the suite of connectivity options of the Devialet Dione, approving it for music, TV dialogue, and movies.
Experts at What Hifii love its boomy sound profile that will please music and movie enthusiasts. The Verge adores its loud output, which fills up large home theaters. Its stand-alone phantom arrangement supports Dolby Atmos, but its performance with 5.1 surround sound is average.
In addition to its huge selection of wired connectors, the system boasts Bluetooth and Apple Airplay, so it’s quite versatile. A mobile app allows users to change their settings and access equalizer presets, but there’s no bass adjustment option.
This soundbar is good for mixed usage but excels at TV shows. Its room correction feature balances the sound profile quite well, so dialogue, vocals, and instruments are clear, and there is ample bass. Another option with strong bass is our SOUNDBOKS (Gen. 3) review
Satisfactory voice clarity
The soundbar has satisfactory voice clarity with a discrete center channel and balanced treble and mids. But the bass-heavy sound takes away from the overall clarity.
Strong bass
Bass is strong on this soundbar, and you’ll have satisfying thumps and rumbles during action scenes and bass-heavy music.
Immersive Atmos
The stereo soundstage is satisfactory, and the Atmos, despite lacking rumble, is fairly immersive.
Subpar surround performance
The side-firing speakers on the bar don’t create an immersive surround experience, and sounds feel like they’re emerging from the front rather than all around you.
Reason to Avoid
No Full HDMI In and high latency
The lack of a Full HDMI In input means this soundbar can’t function as an HDMI hub between multiple devices. You also experience some audio lag because of the high latency over Optical (109 ms) and eARC (125 ms), which is among the highest we’ve seen. For better connectivity options, read our onn 42” 5.1.2 Dolby Atmos Soundbar review
No remote, display, and voice assistants
Interacting with this soundbar can feel inconvenient because it is missing a remote, display, and voice assistants.
No remote, display, and voice assistants
Interacting with this soundbar can feel inconvenient because it is missing a remote, display, and voice assistants.
Devialet Dione Specs
Bluetooth Enabled
Yes
Depth
6.5"
Dialogue Enhancement Feature
Yes
Equalizer Settings
Basic
HDMI ARC
Yes
Height
3.43"
Number of Audio Channels
5.1.2
Subwoofer
Build-in
Surround Sound Supported
Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD
Wall Mountable
Yes
Weight
26.5 lbs
Width
47.2"
Wireless Connectivity
Bluetooth, Wi-Fi
Wireless Subwoofer Connectivity
na
Works With
n/a
All Specs
Test Results
These are the most important criteria to test for Soundbars based on our comprehensive Testing Methodology.
Low End Roll Off (Hz)
53.394
High End Roll Off (Hz)
2,152.7
Max Volume Test (db)
98.4667
Latency (ms)
125
THD @ 80dB
0.24
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The Devialet Dione is a high-end 5.1.2 channel soundbar, which made its debut in 2022, offering excellent acoustics and Dolby Atmos for home theaters and…
The Devialet Dione is a high-end 5.1.2 channel soundbar, which made its debut in 2022, offering excellent acoustics and Dolby Atmos for home theaters and living rooms.
Featuring a 5.1.2 configuration, this system provides a great auditory experience, just like the top speakers today. This soundbar gets really loud and boasts outstanding bass that will please movie and music enthusiasts.
Thanks to a room correction feature, this system automatically optimizes the sound and stands out from most of the best-rated soundbars. It has a self-contained design with a unique rotating center channel, providing a good 3D soundstage.
With one each of HDMI ARC, Optical, and Ethernet inputs, the soundbar provides effortless connectivity and boasts Bluetooth and Airplay. Examine our complete Devialet Dione review below and see our Denon Home soundbar 550 50 review if you need built-in Amazon Alexa.
Producing a deeper, extended low bass, the Devialet Dione soundbar is better for music and movie enthusiasts than the Sonos Arc. However, the Arc has…
Producing a deeper, extended low bass, the Devialet Dione soundbar is better for music and movie enthusiasts than the Sonos Arc. However, the Arc has a lower 1.9 dB Crosstalk Error, delivering a more immersive stereo soundstage than the Devialet Dione, which has a 2.53 dB Crosstalk Error. It also gets louder with its 96.6 dB maximum output than the Devialet Dione, which peaks at 93.4 dB.
Unlike the Devialet Dione, which is a soundbar for indoor use, the Devialet Gold Phantom is a battery-powered wireless speaker that can be used indoors…
Unlike the Devialet Dione, which is a soundbar for indoor use, the Devialet Gold Phantom is a battery-powered wireless speaker that can be used indoors or outdoors. Both speakers support both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, however.
The Devialet Dione produces deeper, extended low bass than the Bose Smart Soundbar 900. On the other hand, the Bose speaker has a lower 2.0…
The Devialet Dione produces deeper, extended low bass than the Bose Smart Soundbar 900. On the other hand, the Bose speaker has a lower 2.0 dB Crosstalk Error and higher 96.4 dB maximum sound output, translating into a more immersive soundstage and louder profile than Devialet Dione, which has a 2.53 dB Crosstalk Error and 96.4 dB maximum SPL.
