Enclave Audio CineHome Pro 5.1 CineHub Edition review

Our Verdict

The Enclave CineHome Pro 5.1 CineHub Edition delivers better sound than a soundbar without sacrificing simplicity — but y'all'll have to alive without the latest technologies.

For

Very detailed sound
Impressive true surround sound
Easy to set up

Confronting

No Atmos back up
No voice assistant back up
Expensive

Tom's Guide Verdict

The Enclave CineHome Pro 5.1 CineHub Edition delivers better sound than a soundbar without sacrificing simplicity — but you'll accept to live without the latest technologies.

Pros

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Very detailed audio
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Impressive true environment sound
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Piece of cake to prepare up

Cons

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No Atmos support
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No phonation assistant back up
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Expensive

The Enclave Audio CineHome Pro 5.1 fills a very specific audio niche. If you lot find even the best soundbars lacking in environs sound power, simply don't desire to become all in on a traditional, receiver-and-wired-speakers dwelling house theater organization, the CineHome Pro 5.one could exist the right fit. Especially if you have a salubrious budget.

This high-end system is wireless, which makes it more convenient than traditional wired systems. However, as our Enclave Sound CineHome Pro 5.i review explains, it also lacks some of the latest technologies that many high-end soundbars and receivers include — most notably Dolby Atmos, multi-room sound and phonation assistant support.

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Enclave Sound CineHome Pro 5.1 review: Price and availability

The Enclave Audio CineHome Pro five.i isn't cheap. It's currently on sale for virtually $one,499, down $100 from its list price. Y'all tin can pick it up from Amazon or direct from Enclave.

Walmart too stocks the organization, admitting at its higher MSRP.

Enclave Audio CineHome Pro v.1 review: Design

The Enclave CineHome Pro 5.one CineHub Edition is a bit of a throwback to the days earlier soundbars, when we had "home theaters in a box." In the pre-soundbar era, you could buy a system that came with a receiver and all the speakers and wires you needed. The Enclave CineHome Pro has a small ready top box instead of a receiver and the speakers are wireless (except for power cables).

Fifty-fifty the CineHome Pro's aesthetics are reminiscent of the early 2000s, with perforated metal fronts that form a triangular prism. The organisation even comes with white gloves for handling the speakers so you don't smudge the metal cases — a truly premium touch.

The CineHome Pro 5.1 includes half-dozen speakers: a five.iii ten 24.ane x 3.4-inch center unit, two five.3 x 3.iv ten 24.1-inch front speakers and two 5.three 10 iii.4 ten sixteen.4-inch rear speakers.. Those front end and rear speakers are quite tall compared to most speakers y'all encounter today. It also includes a huge fourteen.4 x 11.viii 10 xviii.eight-inch subwoofer. Each speaker connects wirelessly to the 7.0 x 5.1 10 1.six-inch CineHub, which is a niggling larger than a Roku streaming box.

The CineHub connects to your TV via HDMI, optical digital or 3.5mm. It also supports Bluetooth — only non AirPlay or Chromecast.

Enclave Audio CineHome Pro 5.1 CineHub Edition review — (Image credit: Future)

You control the system via a remote or the free Enclave Remote app. The remote, which wasn't very useful and didn't come up with instructions, tin switch among the inputs and control book. It has several buttons that seem to have no function, such every bit HDMI ii and three buttons when there's only a single HDMI port. If you connect via HDMI ARC, you can control the volume of the system through your Television set remote.

The Enclave Remote app offers much greater control of the system, and you'll want it for setup. However, information technology's not every bit refined every bit the Sonos app, and needed to be restarted a few times during testing.

Enclave Audio CineHome Pro 5.one CineHub Edition review: Functioning

The CineHome Pro 5.ane is a joy to listen to. Information technology produced a very detailed audio that less expensive systems tin can't match. With clear dialog, rich and precise bass and encompassing surround audio, you'll have a difficult time going back to a unmarried soundbar. It delivered a crisper and more than realistic sound than many of the best soundbars, such as the Sonos Arc.

The CineHome Pro sounds best when you give it first-class source material. Cate Blanchett's voiceover at the commencement of the 4K Blu-ray version of Fellowship of the Band sounded resonant and clear. The subwoofer provided advisable gravity when Isildur cuts the ring from Sauron'south hand — it rumbled the floor only didn't audio muddied.

The rear surrounds helped Thor's axe feel as if it were moving around me in the Battle of Wakanda in Avengers: Infinity War; the size of those rear speakers also helped reveal fantabulous details in the surround mix. The music in Hamilton filled the room even equally the vocals remained prominent and like shooting fish in a barrel to understand. Merely throughout testing I wished the system supported Dolby Atmos — I would have liked to hear how it handled object-based audio rather than relying on Dolby Digital surround audio.

The CineHome Pro's speakers handle music just as well. The Weeknd's "Bright Lights" counterbalanced vocals with the rich bass line, revealing details that other systems miss. The audio-visual guitar in Fleetwood Mac's "Never Going Back Again" was crisp and bright, too.

The CineHome Pro 5.1 gets painfully loud. It measured 105 decibels at max volume, which you lot probably shouldn't try. Suffice to say, it will make full merely about any size room you put information technology in.

Enclave Sound CineHome Pro 5.1 CineHub Edition review: Setup

The CineHome Pro 5.i is almost as piece of cake equally a soundbar to prepare, except it has more speakers to plug in. The biggest challenge you may have is finding plenty ability plugs for the six speakers and the CineHub. I connected the CineHub to my Idiot box via HMDI and was quickly upwards and listening.

You lot'll want to download the app early in the process. The speakers should automatically connect to the CineHub, but if they don't you can push the reset button on the back of each and so tap Reset Wireless in the app'south settings.

The app doesn't have a lot of adjustments you tin make to the sound, compared to a receiver or many premium soundbars. The system lacks an automated way to melody the sound to your environment, like Sonos's TruePlay, so you lot take to do it manually. In the app'due south Room Setup tab yous can enter the distance of each speaker from your principal sitting position — another very 2000s touch on. Y'all tin too change the level of each speaker; I additional the center two.0db to better hear dialog in the mix.

The CineHome Pro has only a couple of sound modes: Dolby Pro Logic Movie or Music, and yous tin can have it automatically switch between the two based on the audio source. You can also adjust the Dolby Dynamic Range or go into Whole Room Stereo mode, in which the rear speakers play the same matter as the front speakers.

Enclave Audio CineHome Pro 5.1 CineHub Edition review: Verdict

If you're seeking a home theater audio system with corking sound and want the convenience of wireless speakers, the Enclave Sound CineHome Pro 5.ane CineHub Edition volition striking the marking. With its large rear speakers, it produces surround sound that a single soundbar only can't compete with. Its giant subwoofer delivers precise depression-finish effects that few soundbar subwoofers achieve.

But at $1,500, it's expensive, and it lacks the back up for the latest technologies, such as Dolby Atmos. The $799 Sonos Arc, by dissimilarity, handles Atmos well and comes with vocalization assistants built in. The Sonos system also has a better app and multi-room support, another feature lacking from the Enclave system. You could build a wireless Sonos arrangement similar to the CineHome Pro with an Arc, two Sonos Ones as rear speakers and a wireless sub, but that would price even more: $1,856 in total.

The CineHome Pro 5.1 delivers a crisper and more precise sound than the Sonos Arc, though. And if that's the near important thing to yous, you lot may be able to live without the latest tech. But it still feels like a system built for the moment — or even the past — rather than the future.

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Michael Gowan covers soundbars, TVs, portable speakers and other audio- and video-related topics for Tom'south Guide. He's written about music and technology for more than 20 years for a raft of publications including Wired, Men's Journal, PC World and Macworld. When he's non reviewing speakers, he'south probably listening to i anyway.