Nobody does soundbars quite like Canvas does. Right from its beginning in 2024, the Danish brand was motivated by a desire to create soundbars that combine powerful, premium sound quality with slim profiles designed to partner TVs from many of the world’s main TV manufacturers so seamlessly that they look like they’re actually part of the TV’s design. Now the brand has revealed that it’s about to take this concept to a new performance level with the Canvas L, which the brand boldly describes as the world’s first “audiophile” soundbar.
Aside from the customary eye-catching slim Canvas shape designed to match the depth of today’s skinny TVs, the Canvas L’s headline features are its provision of a massive 1500W of power feeding into a speaker configuration of 2 x 300W for the main woofers, 2 x 200W for the mid-range drivers, and 2 x 50W for the tweeters – all with, Canvas claims, less than 0.02%THD at full rated power. Which means, of course, even less distortion during normal operational levels at volumes human ears might actually be able to tolerate!
There’s plenty of cutting edge technology inside the Canvas L to make sure all that power is put to best use, too. Starting with the soundbar’s use of a highly efficient GaN power supply with substantial power reserves.
A new ‘+’ upgrade to Canvas’s proprietary BridgeBrace technology, meanwhile, uses MDF reinforcement to further strengthen the high rigid Compact Density Fibreboard cabinet sides that enabled the original BridgeBrace system to allow the cabinet to remain acoustically inert while providing the necessary structural strength.
The Canvas L’s Class D amplification is delivered by completely new, ultra-powerful modules with post filter digital single-loop full global feedback – a design that suppresses nonlinearities and frequency-dependent load behaviour in the LC output filter. Which in layman’s terms means the Canvas L can produce more precise, controlled and transparent sound.
Sound tuning and aspects of the speaker design, meanwhile, have been entrusted to audiophile sound tuner Benno Baun Medgaard, the man also behind the tuning of ultra high-end speakers from Gryphon and Raidho. He’s worked with acclaimed Danish high-end transducer brand Scan-Speak to develop a custom woofer for the Canvas L’s compact enclosure featuring a coated paper cone layered on top of the Canvas’s Air-Dried paper/carbon fibre cone. This is supported by a passive radiator based on the same woofer design, for extra bass power and control, while mid-range and trebles are delivered by a custom-made ScanSpeak midrange and SB Acoustics tweeter module mounted in an ultra rigid aluminium baffle with a highly damped, asymmetric rear enclosure designed to align with the Canvas L’s high front edge, minimizing edge diffraction and improving clarity.
The Canvas L also joins previous Canvas models in carrying BACCH 3D technology: A proprietary third-party digital processing solution designed to create a 3D spatial sound effect from a stereo speaker configuration of the sort carried by the Canvas L.
Connections on the Canvas L include an HDMI with ARC/eARC support, a digital coax, a Toslink jack, plus stereo RCA and Ethernet ports, while wireless support comprises Apple Airplay 2, Tidal Connect, Spotify Connect, Google Chromecast, DLNA and Roon Readiness.
The Canvas L’s minimalist design core can be fitted with no less than 13 different finish options, as well as supporting front panels that can adapt it to size-match TVs from 65 to 85 inches in size. TV and hybrid brackets are all included with the option you buy, too.
The Canvas L will be available in the 4th quarter of 2026, with pricing starting at €5,999 that gets you the Canvas L, the front panel and a universal TV mount package. Formal U.S. and U.K. prices have yet to be confirmed, but €5,999 equates to around $6,000 and £5,200.
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