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Home theater has always been a game of compromises. You either spend a fortune on a TV large enough to feel cinematic, or you buy a budget projector and spend the rest of your evenings squinting at a washed-out image the moment someone turns a light on. The sweet spot, a projector bright enough to hold its own in a lit room at genuinely cinematic scale, has historically lived at a price point that makes most people close the browser tab. Hisense thinks it has finally cracked that equation with the XR10, a 4K triple laser projector that debuted at CES 2026 and has now officially opened for pre-order.

The XR10 throws a 4K UHD image anywhere from 65 to 300 inches, powered by a triple laser light source rated at 6,000 ANSI lumens and a lifespan of 25,000 hours. That brightness figure is the headline: most home projectors top out well below 4,000 lumens, making ambient light their mortal enemy. Hisense pairs that output with Dolby Vision, HDR10+, and IMAX Enhanced certification, a 17-element glass lens, and a 2.1-channel audio system co-developed with Devialet and tuned with input from the Opéra de Paris. The pre-order price sits at $5,299.99, down from a retail tag of $6,999.99, with a free HT Saturn 4.1.2 wireless sound system thrown in.

Designer: Hisense

The XR10 operates across a 0.84 to 2.0:1 throw ratio with 2.39x optical zoom and lens shift, which means you are not locked into a single position in your room to hit your target screen size. A seven-level iris adjustment and the 17-element glass lens work together to give you granular control over the image, while the native 6,000:1 contrast ratio and up to 60,000:1 dynamic contrast ensure the picture holds depth whether you are watching a sunlit action sequence or a shadow-heavy thriller. Color coverage reaches 118 percent of BT.2020, which puts the XR10 well above the color volume of most consumer displays at any price.

Hisense brought in Devialet, the award-winning French audio engineering firm behind some of the most acoustically serious speakers on the consumer market, to develop the XR10’s built-in 2.1-channel system. Two 8W speakers pair with a 15W subwoofer, the whole profile tuned with input from the Opéra de Paris, and the system supports both Dolby Digital and DTS Virtual:X. Thermal management comes via a dual-channel liquid cooling system that keeps operating temperatures stable without generating the kind of fan noise that pulls you out of a quiet scene.

Smart platform duties fall to Hisense’s VIDAA OS, with Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, and Apple TV all available natively. AirPlay 2 and Miracast handle screen mirroring, and the connectivity spec runs to Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, HDMI 2.1, HDMI 2.0, USB 3.0, and Gigabit Ethernet, with eARC and CEC support rounding out the audio integration options. For a device sitting in your living room as a permanent installation, that connectivity stack is exactly what you want.

At $5,299.99 during the pre-order window, the XR10 is not an impulse purchase, and Hisense knows it. The full retail price of $6,999.99 puts it in direct conversation with high-end OLED televisions, and that is precisely the comparison Hisense wants buyers making. A 300-inch OLED does not exist. The XR10 does, and right now you can pre-order one with a free surround sound system included.

The post The Hisense XR10 Packs 6,000 Lumens, Liquid Cooling, and Devialet Audio Into One Very Serious 4K Projector first appeared on Yanko Design.

French audio brand Devialet’s Phantom I is already a celebrated wireless speaker with side-firing bass reflex ports and subtle color variants. Fittingly, two eminent artists have been summoned to give this iconic speaker a stunning new vibe for the Chinese Year of the Dragon, a festivity that marks the end of winter and the beginning of spring.

Dubbed the Phantom I 108 dB by Yang Bao & Wa Liu, after the designers behind the new gold and red colored speaker, this lustrous take on the Devialet flagship creates a nice, visible amalgamation of physical and analog connections. To be available in limited edition between 23 January 2024 and 23 April 2024 (or until the stock lasts) this speaker also dubbed ANIMAL impresses with its “colors and textures reference the dragon of our cultural imagination” designer Wa Liu says.

Designer: Devialet

On the back of the hand-crafted speaker come the 22.5-carat gold leaf accents complemented by the red strokes. This artistic element replicates the rippling motion of the dragon’s movement. It’s more of a musical instrument that seems to have a personality of its own. According to Bao the play of light and shadows helps it cryptically blend into the surroundings. Another good reason it has a deliberate sculptural design to evoke a subtle presence.

The limited-edition Phantom I, justifies the symbol of the dragon with its intimidating presence as opposed to the Western counterpart. In a way, it mixes nature and music, power and serenity all in one go. Creating this version takes around two weeks which explains the attention to detail put in the making. As the artists explain, ‘We obviously work on a number of units at the same time.’ To this end, two gilders showcase their craft, brushing hammered gold leaf onto the surface of the Phantom, juxtaposing it with the thin lines of red lacquer. The intricate design is not only a visual combination of gold leaf and red lacquer, but the lacquer itself requires three painstaking layers of application!

No wonder the Phantom I 108 dB by Yang Bao & Wa Liu will set you back a mind-numbing $6,700 a piece.