THE SOUND BLASTERX KATANA

The 1.5Kg heavy soundbar features a nice looking brushed aluminum enclosure which measures 600mm in length, 79mm in width and 60mm in height.

At the top of the soundbar Creative has placed the on/off/bluetooth pairing, volume down/up, source and sbx (audio modes) buttons.

Needless to say, that beneath these two grills located at the top lie the 2.5 inch mid-bass drivers.

What did surprise me a bit was that even though the soundbar is 600mm long it has just two 1.3 inch twitters facing forward.

Every single port is located at the rear of the soundbar so here we find the DC in, subwoofer port, microphone input, headphone output, auxiliary input, optical SPDIF input, USB audio player and a micro USB port (for this review i used the micro USB connection and the SPDIF input).

Turning the soundbar over we see two feet and the RGB LED strip with te 49 programmable RGB LEDs.

The subwoofer weighs no less than 4Kg and measures 333mm in height, 299mm in width and 130mm in length.

Even though the port tube is located at the front of the MDF enclosure the long-throw driver fires from the right side.

The subwoofer sits on 4 round rubber feet.

If you plan on pairing the Katana wirelessly with your TV then this remote control can come in very handy.