LeEco Super 4 Max65 first review: Home theater is the ultimate goal of living room entertainment

Undoubtedly, the greatest contribution of the birth of Internet TV is that it has transformed people's original inherent way of using TV, which was to only be able to watch programs through cable TV, into self-service selection of massive online video resources and entertainment content through the Internet. Users have changed from being passive to active in front of the TV, and major TV manufacturers have also spared no effort to continue to make efforts in the software content level.

But what cannot be ignored is that an excellent software content experience always requires an outstanding hardware foundation to support it. Especially for a technological product like television that has a special position in the home, it is extremely important whether it can create an immersive audio-visual experience in the home environment.

As the fastest growing Internet TV manufacturer in China, LeTV has relied on its ecological strategy of "platform + content + hardware + software + application" to not only bring the leading EUI operating system to the Internet TV industry in terms of software, but also set extremely high standards for its own products in terms of hardware. The latest Super 4 Max65 is intended to bring users the ultimate audio-visual experience with a new design thinking.

Top split TVs should be all-round flagships

If you are still impressed by the previously released "winner in life" LeTV Super TV uMax85, the overall design style of Super 4 Max65 is similar to the former. The main body of the fuselage standing on two feet highlights the stability of the large-size TV. LeTV calls it the clouded leopard base.

The Super 4 Max65 adopts an all-metal body design, and the thinnest part of the screen is 10.9mm, which is comparable to the thickness of a mobile phone. Of course, it is not just the external beauty of the product. In terms of picture quality, the 65-inch 4K screen has 85% of the NTSC high color gamut, and supports the industry's latest HDR high dynamic lighting rendering and MEMC dynamic picture quality compensation, bringing excellent display effects.

To have such a large, thin screen with great display effect, it is inseparable from the innovative split design of Super 4 Max65, which separates the processor unit, speakers and other parts of the TV from the main body of the screen. LeTV calls this split component a smart home center, which centrally stores interfaces and physical buttons, mainly providing 3 HDMI 2.0 interfaces and two USB interfaces including a USB 3.0 interface, so that users do not need to blindly grope behind the TV screen when using external devices in the market.

In addition, the split components of Super 4 Max65 are made of the same all-metal material as the main body of the TV, ensuring the visual unity of the product. The smart home center only uses a Superlink cable to connect to the TV, without the need for additional power supply, and the subwoofer uses a simpler wireless connection method, which changes the complex connection of various components of other split TV products.

As for parameter configuration, LeTV never disappoints. The latest Super 4 Max65 is equipped with MStar6A938 flagship TV processor, supplemented by 4GB+32GB ultra-large storage combination and 802.11ac, 2.4G/5G dual-band wireless network. It has no shortcomings and fully meets the performance requirements of LeTV EUI for users, from 4K video to large-scale TV games.

Surround sound reaches users directly, LeTV will subvert the listening experience of TV this time

A major advantage of the split TV design is that the screen can be made thinner and the interface can be more flexible, but at the same time, the speaker part of the TV is no longer limited to being connected to the screen or making compromises in design. Super 4 Max65 attaches great importance to this point and uses split design to work hard on the TV's sound performance.

Based on the split design, Super 4 Max65 provides a full-featured 2.1 audio system certified by Harman Kardon. Including the 80W subwoofer, the total output power reaches 120W, and it can be used as a Bluetooth speaker alone.

The Super 4 Max65 smart home center has 6 built-in front-facing speakers, including 2 super tweeters and 4 independent vocal mid-bass units, with a dynamic frequency response range of 120Hz-20KHz, supporting active pre-stage electronic crossover technology, Dolby Digital Plus/DTS HD audio dual decoding and Dolby Audio sound post-processing technology.

As for the actual sound effect, Super 4 Max65 can be said to have completely elevated people's traditional perception of the sound that TV can produce. The 6 speakers in the smart home center, relying on the advantage of the number of sound units, create a more realistic surround sound, and with the assistance of bass, the sense of presence of the sound is more prominent when watching blockbuster movies or listening to music with strong percussion.

In live concerts or blockbuster scenes like "Hacksaw Ridge", the Super 4 Max65 is enough to thoroughly enhance the sound atmosphere and bring the audience into the world on the screen. In language variety shows like the popular "Ace vs. Ace", the improvement of the sound effects by the Super 4 Max65 is equally fascinating. Multiple speakers bring more rich and delicate sounds, creating the effect that the host is right in front of you, which is no exaggeration.

Exploring the reasons why Super 4 Max65 subverts the listening experience of TV, it is obvious that LeTV discovered and deeply explored the gain effect of split design on TV sound.

First of all, in terms of basic speaker layout, the split design allows the Super 4 Max65 to achieve an overwhelming victory in the number of sound units over traditional TVs, while obtaining a larger speaker cavity design space, which is like using a 7.6L large-volume subwoofer, which is unimaginable on a non-split TV.

Secondly, compared with the current practice of placing speakers at the rear of TVs, the split design allows all the sound units of the Super 4 Max65 to face the user face to face. We all know that the sound reaches the human ear in a "curved" way after being reflected by the wall, which is very different from the sound source reaching the human ear "directly" facing the user. Therefore, the superiority of the split design of the TV is self-evident.

Sound and picture quality are upgraded simultaneously. LeTV is the first to grasp the next pain point of TV users

We say that television is both a type of technological product and an audio-visual device that brings people viewing enjoyment. As screen display technology continues to improve, the auditory aspect should also keep pace with the times.

The Ultra 4 Max65, positioned as an ultra-high-definition HDR split TV, reshapes the TV audio-visual experience based on a split design, which undoubtedly conforms to the trend of fashion and the actual needs of users.

On TV screens, in addition to regular film and television and language programs, singing reality shows such as "The Voice of China" and "I Am a Singer" continue to be popular. The need for TV to produce "good sound" is becoming increasingly important. More and more TV programs have adopted advanced recording standards including Dolby sound effects when recording, but the sound quality of ordinary TVs rarely has the ability to perfectly bring out these sounds.

After leading the industry in content construction and display quality, LeTV Super TV has once again focused on the field of sound, using high standards in audio and sound quality to ensure that viewers can enjoy good sound through TV. This is undoubtedly a very forward-looking and necessary approach.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.