THE SOUND BLASTER KATANA V2

Measuring 600mm in length, 95mm in width/depth and 62mm in height/thickness the 1.52Kg heavy Sound Blaster Katana V2 (enclosure is made out of plastic and aluminum) is slightly larger compared to its predecessor (600x79x60mm).

I don't still have the original Katana in the lab but i do have both the Stage V2 and 360 models so you can see just how it compares to those in terms of size.

At the front of the soundbar we find a long VFW screen, the two beamforming microphones (left and right from the screen) and the 3.5mm headphones port.

The media buttons are all located at the top and include the on/off/bluetooth pairing, increase/decrease volume, source (USB/optical/aux/bluetooth/TV), mode (movies/music/gaming/effects) and SXFI buttons.

Each side of the soundbar has two drivers, one 63mm up-firing mid-range driver and a 19mm forward-firing tweeter.

Moving at the rear we find the HDMI ARC, USB-A (SXFI output for use with USB headphones), USB-C, aux-in, optical in, sub-out and power ports.

At the base of the soundbar we find two rubber feet and a very long RGB LED bar (i counted at least 30 LEDs here - didn't remove the plastic cover).

Moving to the subwoofer it's made out of MDF and measures 367mm in height, 367mm in length and 150mm in thickness.

Here you can see how this subwoofer compares to the subwoofer used by Creative with both their Stage V2 and 360 soundbars.

I liked that this time over Creative used glossy plastic for the vent port cover.

An 165mm long-throw driver is facing the right side of the subwoofer.

Even though it's tiny the IR remote control Creative bundles with the Katana V2 has every button you'd want from it.

The bottom RGB LED bar looks very nice (still i do hope that Creative eventually makes an RGB LED bar with an ambi-light like function for the PC and TV).