The AWOL Vision LTV-3500 Pro UST is one of the brightest and best projectors we've ever reviewed, but does that justify its $6,000 price?
AWOL Vision LTV-3500 Pro MSRP $5,999.00 Score Details “The AWOL LTV-3500 Pro's steep price is outshined by its stunning picture performance and the kind of brightness I've never seen in a projector before.” Pros Cons Getting the right projector can make or break your home theater room.
Setup and design My experience with setting up UST projectors has been good overall — they don’t usually come with a lot of extra parts to assemble or attach. Aside from positioning and getting the image aligned, it’s a straightforward process. The AWOL LTV-3500 Pro is in line with that experience. Once the LTV-3500 Pro is good to go, you can take a step back and admire how dead sexy the thing looks. Its matte gray finish is accentuated by some slick-looking silver keylines that curve and run along its piano-black front side, making it look like the front end of a sleek sportscar, minus the headlights.
The AWOL LTV-3500 Pro itself runs an Android 9.0-based operating system, but unlike the Android TV or Google TV interfaces a ton of projectors are opting for nowadays, it’s just an interface and does not offer any built-in apps or streaming services . And, frankly, I prefer this as it allows the AWOL to operate in a way that’s much snappier than my experience has been with the Android TV- or Google TV-based projectors I’ve used.
Picture and sound features For your hard-earned $6,000, you’re getting some of the best picture specs we’ve ever seen with the LTV-3500 Pro, thanks in large part to its maximum brightness of 3,500 lumens. That’s 700 more than the equally priced and top-rated Samsung The Premiere LSP9T and 1,000 more than the BenQ V5000i that are both on our best UST projectors list.
For sound, we’ve been seeing a marked improvement in many projectors’ built-in audio, and we’re happy to report that the LTV-3500 Pro has not only also taken up this mantle, but they’re excellent. It features two 36-watt internal stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos and DTS:X support, and the sound is surprisingly big, full, and immersive, with the virtual surround doing a decent job at placing movie sounds like speeding cars and explosions around the room.
Even with out-of-the-box picture settings, the brightness and contrast in Dolby Vision shows like Disney+’s The Acolyte, with its saturated and fast-moving light sabers, looked crisp and vivid. Darker scenes were nice and inky, but not too dark. By default, the Dynamic Contrast and Enhanced Black Levels features are set to On and toggling them on and off revealed that this is the right call — both add a nice brightness boost and deepen the black levels.
Of course, even with the LTV-3500 Pro’s prowess in the light, it goes without saying that the best viewing experience is still in the dark. The darker the better. Do that, ideally on an ALR screen , and you might be more forgiving of the price.
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