Canton CD 90 Speaker Bar reviewed (Verdict: No surround, not self-powered, sounds dandy)

The Canton CD 90 SB speaker bar doesn’t simulate surround sound using precisely calculated delays and phantom audio witchery. It just sticks some nice speakers in a long form, requires a separate receiver and three sets of speaker wires like regular rumble chests, and makes surprising, incongruously fantastic sound. Steven Guttenberg says the $650 CD 90 SB gives a first impression that is “entirely positive, mostly because it didn’t sound like a sound bar”.

1. [Andreas]

   I’d like to see a “2.1 soundbar” (front, rear and sub) setup. Since it seems one bar can make decent sound, two might should sound even better while still keeping the cabling a bit neater by limiting it to a half-loop on one side of the room.