Review: Razer Leviathan V2 gaming soundbar

#6027903 Posted on: 06/24/2022 12:31 AM

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I owned the original Leviathan and gave it away after a while. It had a fatal flaw - uncontrollable auto power-off. After 15, or was it 20, minutes of inactivity or no sound, it would power off and you would have to manually power it back on. For a while, because I was using my PC's alarm, I would play a 1hz sound file which you could barely hear to keep it on for my alarms to go off on PC. There was no way to configure this time or disable auto power off. This single, fatal flaw is why the original failed despite the awesome sound and form factor. I couldn't find anything about this in the review or see any setting for it in the screenshots.

Hilbert, did you happen to know if this condition exists with v2?

#6027912 Posted on: 06/24/2022 12:43 AM

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here's what I say to anyone who says is interested in a "pc" speaker system DON'T
I wasted 10 years with a logitech 2.1 setup and slowly but surely stop listening to it in favor of my headphones, and then I saw someone talk about "studio monitors"
me : "what now ? monitors ? googles quickly....oh damn they never show up on tech webshops because they are in the pro-audio category"

bought Rokit RP5 G4 after listening to youtube videos (with my good headphones connected to a soundblaster Zxr pcie card)
installation was a pain had to buy many cables/adapters + a noise destroyer Behringer HD400 otherwise your analog outputs are useless on a powerful gaming rig (300+ watts gpus radiate noise like crazy)
and the equalizer didn't work on my current motherboard back then so I had to download an open software one (which rocks and can do much more like use advanced sound processing plugins) it's called equalizerapo for it to work you should use the configurator -> troubleshooting -> install as sfx experimental (windows also keeps breaking it with automated updates so you'll have to redo this sometimes)
I used equalizer apo to tweak the sound to my liking (low frequ boost and a bump around 4000Hz)
and.... I spent two days eyes closed just listening to everything I could every style existing

pc speakers are cheap gadgets...don't do like me, if you like music but aren't listening to it all day long...it's because the sound quality isn't good enough
studio monitors will fix that
I'm pissed I wasted so many years with garbage sound as a house deejay but also a movie scores collector
edit : they sound great for games, better than any 2.1 system and I also tried them on my TV..the intro of the 1st lost boys movie gave me shivers ops: but since I watch tv mostly at night it was too loud.,..still for the what 350$ I paid the pair still sound 10x better than soundbars
what do I mean by sounding better ? 1st stereo image waaay better than pc speaker and 2nd it sounds like the band or orchestra is behind my 27" monitor and you could swear the singer is just behind it, completely different league

#6027920 Posted on: 06/24/2022 01:07 AM

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true atmos takes 4.7Gbs per audio track...no thanks
and if you buy an atmos soundbar hoping to have more true atmos content online see my 1st line, not happening

#6027929 Posted on: 06/24/2022 02:04 AM

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true atmos takes 4.7Gbs per audio track...no thanks
and if you buy an atmos soundbar hoping to have more true atmos content online see my 1st line, not happening
Still think that a Sonos or alike bar might sound better than those gaming bars.
Plenty of music available in DA too, even true can be compressed.

#6027932 Posted on: 06/24/2022 02:38 AM

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here's what I say to anyone who says is interested in a "pc" speaker system DON'T
I wasted 10 years with a logitech 2.1 setup and slowly but surely stop listening to it in favor of my headphones, and then I saw someone talk about "studio monitors"
me : "what now ? monitors ? googles quickly....oh damn they never show up on tech webshops because they are in the pro-audio category"

bought Rokit RP5 G4 after listening to youtube videos (with my good headphones connected to a soundblaster Zxr pcie card)
installation was a pain had to buy many cables/adapters + a noise destroyer Behringer HD400 otherwise your analog outputs are useless on a powerful gaming rig (300+ watts gpus radiate noise like crazy)
and the equalizer didn't work on my current motherboard back then so I had to download an open software one (which rocks and can do much more like use advanced sound processing plugins) it's called equalizerapo for it to work you should use the configurator -> troubleshooting -> install as sfx experimental (windows also keeps breaking it with automated updates so you'll have to redo this sometimes)
I used equalizer apo to tweak the sound to my liking (low frequ boost and a bump around 4000Hz)
and.... I spent two days eyes closed just listening to everything I could every style existing

pc speakers are cheap gadgets...don't do like me, if you like music but aren't listening to it all day long...it's because the sound quality isn't good enough
studio monitors will fix that
I'm pissed I wasted so many years with garbage sound as a house deejay but also a movie scores collector
edit : they sound great for games, better than any 2.1 system and I also tried them on my TV..the intro of the 1st lost boys movie gave me shivers ops: but since I watch tv mostly at night it was too loud.,..still for the what 350$ I paid the pair still sound 10x better than soundbars
what do I mean by sounding better ? 1st stereo image waaay better than pc speaker and 2nd it sounds like the band or orchestra is behind my 27" monitor and you could swear the singer is just behind it, completely different league



testify!
i use studio monitors for each of my systems incl. my den where i'm going 7.2
but it does cost more. but even a lower end product like the Audioengine or Edifier is way beyond "pc speakers".11931