Klipsch The Nines II Red Oak 8" Dolby Atmos Powered Speaker Pair

Red Oak Powered Pair

The Klipsch The Nines II in Red Oak is a 2.1 channel powered speaker pair built for listeners who want a complete stereo system with immersive audio from a single box. Each cabinet uses MDF with genuine wood veneer and houses an 8 inch Jet Cerametallic woofer plus a 1 inch titanium LTS vented tweeter on a Tractrix horn. The pair delivers a maximum output of 107 dB and a frequency response of 31 Hz to 25 kHz. Dirac Live room correction and a supplied calibration microphone tune the sound to the room automatically.

Upgrade From Separate Components

This system replaces a traditional receiver plus passive speakers and adds Dolby Atmos playback with virtual height channels, HDMI ARC connectivity, and wireless stereo linking between the two cabinets. The jump is worth it when you want fewer boxes, simpler cabling, and room-corrected sound without configuring a separate processor. Buyers who need more than two channels of discrete amplification or who require a dedicated subwoofer output for a third box will not find those connections here.

HDMI ARC Interface Limits

The HDMI ARC connection carries audio from a compatible TV and supports CEC control, but it is limited to the bandwidth and format support of the ARC specification rather than the newer eARC implementation. High-bitrate multi-channel formats that exceed ARC capacity will not pass through, so the speaker pair falls back to its internal Dolby Atmos virtual height processing instead of decoding the original object-based stream. Optical and coaxial digital inputs provide alternative paths but share similar bandwidth constraints.