Pros
- New brightest PJ
- Accurate color
- Relatively small and gimbaled
Cons
- Pricey
- How bright do you really need?
- Fans are quite loud when running full throttle
- It's easy to bump out of alignment
It only took a few months to dethrone the brightest projector I'd ever tested. The Xgimi Horizon 20 Max is the new king of brightness, an accolade I suspect soon will be meaningless, but more on that later. With lots of luscious lumens, the 20 Max can fill as big a screen, or wall, as you can find. Its colors are also surprisingly accurate and it has a decent contrast ratio.ย
It's also very expensive. With an MSRP of $3,000, it's practically a dollar a lumen. For that price, it does have a few issues, including an underwhelming zoom range and some production flaws that shouldn't exist in a product with that price tag.
Overall, though, the Horizon 20 Max is a great projector that delivers an excellent image with the gimbal-style design that seems to be all the rage. I'm not sure its price is fully justified, but if you want to blind passing spacecraft, pop 140 tons of popcornย or simply create an ultrabright, wall-sized image, it's an impressive little machine.
Specs and such
- Resolution: 4Kย
- Lumens spec: 5,700 (ISO)
- Zoom: 1.2-1.5:1
- Lens shift: ยฑ120% vertical, ยฑ45% horizontal
- Light source type and life: RGB laser (life not specified but lasers typically last the life of the projector)
The Horizon 20 Max is an evolution of the Xgimi Horizon S Max and Xgimi Horizon Ultra. It's a little larger and has the former's pivot frame and lazy Susan-style base. Yet, I wish there were a way to lock the alignment in place, as any bump to whatever its sitting on can send it off target.ย
Unlike most cheaper DLP projectors, the 20 Max has both…