Marshall Heston 120 Soundbar Black - ZD.1006888

Marshall Heston 120 Soundbar — Black | Dolby Atmos & DTS:X | 11 Drivers | Dual Rear-Facing Subwoofers + 4 Passive Radiators | HDMI eARC | Wi-Fi + Bluetooth + Auracast | AirPlay 2 / Spotify / TIDAL / Google Cast | Tactile Analogue Controls

The Marshall Heston 120 in Black is Marshall's first-ever TV soundbar — a landmark product that brings the brand's 60 years of acoustic excellence and unmistakable design heritage into the home cinema space, delivering a colossal, immersive and genuinely spacious audio experience for both television and music in a single beautifully crafted unit. Fitted with 11 drivers facing in different directions, the Heston 120 uses object-based spatial audio to throw sound out into the room with pinpoint three-dimensional accuracy — placing every effect, every instrument and every voice precisely above and around you rather than simply projecting it forwards from the screen. The result is a sound experience that places you directly inside the action of every film, every show and every song, with a sense of scale, depth and dimensionality that built-in TV speakers cannot begin to approach. Supporting both Dolby Atmos and DTS:X — the two leading immersive audio formats in the world — the Heston 120 reproduces object-based soundtracks exactly as their creators intended, with sounds positioned dynamically in three-dimensional space and moving fluidly around the room in perfect sync with the on-screen action.

The driver architecture of the Heston 120 is a genuinely sophisticated piece of acoustic engineering that explains how a single soundbar can produce such an expansive and immersive soundstage without any separate satellite speakers. Up-firing tweeters project sound overhead, reflecting it off the ceiling to enhance depth perception and create the sensation of height that is essential to a convincing Dolby Atmos experience. Precision-engineered side-firing drivers reflect sound off the walls of your room to deliver wider, multi-directional audio with significantly enhanced spatial clarity — expanding the soundstage far beyond the physical width of the soundbar itself. Midwoofers optimised for lateral sound performance work alongside matching front drivers and real-time audio processing to ensure that dialogue and speech always stay sharp, natural, clear and entirely free from crossover interference — solving the single most common complaint about TV audio, where speech becomes muffled or lost beneath music and effects. Together, these eleven precisely positioned and individually tuned drivers create a soundstage of remarkable width, height and depth from a single elegant unit.

The bass performance of the Heston 120 is delivered by a complete integrated low-frequency system that requires no separate subwoofer purchase whatsoever. Dual rear-facing subwoofers, supported by four passive radiators, deliver powerful, deep and precise bass across the full low-frequency spectrum — engineered to make special effects sound more lifelike and impactful while keeping music bass tight, controlled and richly textured. This built-in bass system means the Heston 120 delivers a genuinely complete, room-filling home audio experience straight out of the box, with the option to add the matching Heston Sub 200 subwoofer later for those who want even greater low-frequency power and impact. Four distinct sound modes — Movie, Music, Night and Voice — allow you to instantly optimise the soundbar's audio character for any situation, from the full cinematic immersion of Movie mode to the dialogue-focused clarity of Voice mode and the considerate, reduced-dynamic-range output of Night mode for late-evening listening without disturbing the rest of the household.

Connectivity on the Heston 120 is comprehensive and built around the latest wireless and wired standards. The HDMI eARC port connects to any compatible television with a single cable, carrying full-resolution Dolby Atmos and DTS:X audio and allowing the soundbar's volume to be controlled directly by your existing TV remote, while a second HDMI port provides pass-through for connecting external devices. Wireless connectivity includes Wi-Fi, the latest Bluetooth technology with Auracast support, Apple AirPlay 2, Spotify Connect, TIDAL Connect and Google Cast — alongside integrated music services including Spotify, TIDAL and airable internet radio that can be accessed directly from the soundbar. The Marshall app provides complete control over the sound from anywhere in your home, with customisable EQ settings and a room correction feature that calibrates the audio output to the specific acoustic characteristics of your space. The heritage-style analogue control panel with tactile bass and treble knobs is a playful yet genuinely functional nod to Marshall's amplifier heritage — allowing instant adjustment of the sound and the saving of presets for quick access to a favourite playlist or station. Designed and engineered in Sweden, the Heston 120 is built to last and is fully repairable with replaceable parts including the fret, end caps, drivers and circuit boards, and receives over-the-air updates to ensure it always performs at its best.