Linus i have to admit you're looking a lot happier and less stressed these days, huge credit to the team you've built around you to help alleviate it! Loving the content keep it coming
@@fluffyjello well yeah obviously linus and team are the people they're marketing to outside of the film industry. so it would be really counter productive to just give them out for free to those same potential customers.
@@sinuslebastian6366 yes, for sure, we make fun of it but he really deserves it, he created a media empire specialized in covering tech and recognized by his quality, technical and above all neutral review of products, setting an standard for other content creators
I love how companies send Linus stuff so they can have their packaging tested against it getting dropped and damaged. I wonder what he charges for that service.
Wouldn't that just be linus' desk? Like I could imagine Alex going (in say a rugged laptop review or some shit) "OK so we'll just leave this here - puts laptop on desk - and we'll come back in an hour, should have been drop tested plenty by then"
Suggestion: Blind test. Give your staff blind folds on, tell them there are X amount of speakers in the room (not 4 because that would be easy), and then make them point at the speakers where they think they are.
@@LightPink they're literally in the process of creating a lab for putting tech companies claims up against real measurable tests and have frequently been critical of companies that have sent them tech samples before. The fact that Sony is giving them all of this would not effect their testing or impressions
But the objective of proper speakers is for them to be as transparent as possible. If you can point where they are, you're not getting the proper sound stage.
Having heard the HTA9 adapting to an odd room and doing exactly what it promises, As a sceptic and HT / HIFI enthusiast I was astonished. This is a massive step forward in HTIB or Soundbar tech and it really does work incredibly well.
Nice to see a decent sound solution that doesn’t rely on a million wires. We’re in the process of techifying a 500 year old farmhouse in the UK where it isn’t possible to hide wires in walls or under the floor, so are trying to minimise the number of wired connections we have. In general this series has given us some great inspiration.
Linus, I just built my first pc ever and don’t think I would have been as confident picking parts and building myself without the information I’ve gathered from your videos so thank you so much!
Picked myself up one of these a few days ago and I love them! Defo a middle ground between home theatre and a soundbar. A few issues with people walking around the room as that black box relies on line of sight to ‘beam’ the sound (so no hiding the box behind the tv). Walking past a speaker drops the audio briefly. Nothing that isn’t fixable in a software update later down the line. Other than that, it’s perfect!
What do you think is the signal that the speakers use to connect? Because i don‘t know if its "updatable“ if it uses infrared or something that needs a clear path to trasmit… I was interested but that could be a dealbreaker for me :(
Audio dropping out as an "other than that"???? I mean thats pretty huge. If someone gets up in the middle of a movie and walks around the couch, the audio could cutout mid-watch? Thats a HUGE problem.
Having a wireless speaker set is amazing. I also built a thumper for under each seat. Having them all self adjust to equalise the sound no matter their placement that's genius. Then a speaker set died and they lost my speakers during RMA. Couldn't afford to replace them.
You plug in every device in the tv and it passes the audio signal through the hdmi (e-arc) cable from the tv to the sony box. So you just have to make sure that the tv and the sony box support every codec etc that you might need.
If you plug the audio system in the HDMI (ARC) of your TV then it will automatically be used as the audio for everything connected to your TV in every other HDMI inputs(and of course the TV's Smart Apps as well)
Additional credit - imogen heap - magic me The dolby short - Escape animated short. In case people were wondering what / where that animation was from cause i wanted to see it, since never seeing it before.
THIS is what I've been waiting to see for a looooooong time. Way back in the day I splurged on an expensive Yamaha soundbar that projected and bounced audio around the room for a full surround experience from a single bar ... and it was great! For me. But it was a little too focused on a single person's perfect audio experience. It wasn't great for movie nights with fam and friends. You could de-tune it to help with that, but at a loss of directionality. So later I went back to normal multi-speaker surround, but I'd always wondered, what if that same projection magic were in the surround speakers? Well, now we have it! Sweet. Now if only I still had a big open living room... LOL Moving, eh?
I got mine when it first came out in the market, and I absolutely love this thing! I live in an oddly shaped condo where the living room is smaller than my bedroom, so space optimization has always been my priority. With an ultra-short throw projector and the HT-A9, my journey for the best home theater setup had finally concluded, and I've been spending the most amount of time in my living room ever since.
Sony MDR v6, the quintessential studio monitor headphones. Been around since the 80s and is still made (essentially, they made a minor change and changed the name).
@@MuhammadKharismawan Honestly Sony never really flopped a few developments didn't work out like MiniDisc but the 2000s was a rough patch for every electronics company as plastic and poor quality plagued the entire industry. And as a whole the Market decided to stop buying bad products which made all the manufactures step their game up or just die lol
@@RiceCubeTech exactly what I was going to say. It's rough being a shift worker. Even the time you do get to spend with your family is short and not worth the time away from them.
@@JohnDoe-xp4iy Yea sure bud, all of the CEOs and owners are the ones never seeing their families. Not lower class people who literally need to work 2 jobs just to survive. SMH you have no grasp on reality.
I have a feeling we will eventually get a house-tour that is basically an ad for each company who has sponsored this set of videos: Here's my living room brought to you by Sony, my office brought to you by ASUS, my gaming room brought to you by Corsair, my kids' rooms brought to you by Lego, etc.
I've had this for a few weeks and am both thoroughly impressed and also highly disappointed. The system doesn't have nearly enough manual control so you can't properly adjust where the center dialogue is coming from. I've had to trick the system into a normal balance by placing the speakers equally apart from each other during the setup, then moving them elsewhere after. I'm really hoping you'll be able to adjust or shift the system settings with much more minute detail. You should have a sliding scale going left/right and front/back.
Appreciable criticism, this is definitely designed for a plug and enjoy experience, Sony is similar as Apple in that "they think they knew better than you" in their product design, but unlike Apple Sony is actually accepting of criticism recently. Complaint enough and you may just get a Fw update for that.
It's not them, it's you. Half kidding, but I personally have more hearing loss in one ear than the other, so, yes. I have to have a manual slider. Cheers! ☘️
@@MuhammadKharismawan Yeah and they give you a small taste of control that's dumbed down which makes it even worse! So we can hear it's not centered and do the adjustment they have which then throws the full dialogue to the other side, instead of the center.
@@baka_ja_nai The thing is that there is a phantom center channel that sounds very spacial in the right way. It's just that you can't move the soundstage with precision for a specific room.
The graph of where the speakers go is actually really helpful. It seems obvious, but "rear left" could mean to the audience's left, or like Stage Left, which is actually to the audience's right.
@@lunascomments3024 You're right, that's my point. The right speaker should go on the left. My left, not the TV's left, which would be right but not right. After the rear left, the only rear speaker left would be right, which should be right. Just place the right speaker on the right, right where the only spot is left.
@@lunascomments3024 Not everyone has a ton of experience with this stuff and I've certainly been confused by similar issues before (vaguely remember an app that used stage direction from a long time ago).
@@nemtudom5074 It's also a bit complicated. Since it's a paid sponsor, might be a bit tricky for them to do anything about it immediately. There might be a timeout clause, where they are informing Sony of the issue, and if Sony responds back, then their response is the outcome. Otherwise, if they take too long, then it's forfeit and they can append. Wishful thinking? Yes, but eh...
This was an interesting experience on my phone because Jake sounded very clear coming out of my ear speaker while Linus sounded very muffled coming out of my bottom speaker.
I bought the HTA9 system a few months back and it’s an amazing system. Far better than the flagship Samsung Harman/Kardon soundbar that I was using before. I’t like night and day. Feels like a 12 speaker setup. Just close your eyes and listen. Amazing!
Whenever the house gets finished I feel like Linus is gonna be like "Finally! This is so sick!" and then end up almost never using half the shit in it.
@@Askorti In some years time, he will have left a literal trace of tech-ified homes all over Canada. xD And one day, a politician will say, "We have advanced in technology" only for the whole audience to go "nope" xD
I feel Linus' pain with the "friends, uhm, employees." bit. I moved before I started at my last job and have no friends in the area. The closest thing I had was the people I was supervising.
It would be nice to have these sound demos with binaural (or close to binaural) recordings! An AB setup with so much of a distance just can't create a good representation of a stereo (or binaural in this case) image due to both acoustic shadowing (caused by the head being between the left ear and the right sound source and vice versa) and time delay separation (caused by ears receiving the signal at different times) - ofc I understand that it was recorded with whatever was available on-hand on the set, maybe just as a quick idea on the spot. An easy DIY is using a matched pair of cardioid (ORTF setup) or omnidirectional (Binaural setup) mics (even a 300 usd pair like sE or Oktava will be fine, maybe even some stereo pair already in the studio to find out if people like it). Binaural can be achieved with either a recording dummy head or using a strong absorber in the middle of a mic array to get the shadow. A pro measurement-level solution would probably be probably the recording head and/or the measurement torso.
I'm having the exact same experience. Everyone suggested it after my home theater video, so I decided to get them. That was over a month ago and they are out of stock absolutely everywhere.
So I ended up getting the soundbar that they talked about in their previous review (HT-A7000). I have to say, that sound bar sounds AMAZING in my small basement room. It really does sound like there are speakers where there are not speakers especially above you. I have a hard time believing that this product would do a better job in that room. HOWEVER, after hearing a demo of this product in the video at my local Best Buy which was set up in a much more spacious room, I would say this product would be better if it was put in a bigger room. If you have a small room, I'd venture to say you'd be better off with the soundbar especially since even with the optional 2 surround speakers it comes out to being cheaper than this product. The HT-A7000 soundbar also has a lot more bass built into it than what I heard with the HT-A9 though I'd still recommend getting a sub for both products. But again, if you have a pretty decently sized room, this product might be the better bet. It is weird that Sony has these products competing against each other though. The soundbar is at the high end of what "normal" people would pay for one while the HT-A9 is cheaper than a bespoke home theater system...but would most likely lose out to a properly set up one.
The lack of Bass could be part due to inherent quality losses of the various processes between the source and our ears. First there's the limits of whatever they were recording with which is probably optimized for speech, then there's the conversion process or possibly multiple conversion processes it has to go through before and possibly after being uploaded to RU-vid. Then there's the limits of whatever you were listening on.
I’m not sure if all these recent “Mr. Tech Tips” jokes I keep seeing are the result of my mind being read or if I’m simply noticing them a lot more once I started joking about referring to him like that in my head. I’m going to say I’m just noticing them more now for my sanity lol.
As someone who lives with someone below them, getting audio equipment that does NOT have subs is so needed. I could never run it anyways, so it would be just a waste of money.
Finally moving away from soundbars and into some more serious speaker gear. The last interesting soundbar ever made was the Sennheriser Ambero and the new A9 seems to really be the soundbar killer
I love both smart home tech and other various high end tech like this for the house but I have trouble identifying what I should get for my own place so videos like this are perfect! Once Linus has entire house setup, I would love a conclusion video that went through the whole house recapping everything that's been done, with links to these previous videos, and any updated thoughts on how the tech is still working.
The A90 also supports using the television as a center speaker with a traditional wired system, and it works pretty well. You guys could really do more for your home theater videos, would love to consult. :P
That has been a Sony feature for a decade. What they missed and you are missing is with that system only the Sony XR line of TVs support virtual center channel using the system.
14:23 "You don't have to run wires..." Once upon a time, I saw an installation of wireless rear speakers (wireless = don't need speaker wires), but they were powered by a large orange extension cord that ran across the room back to the home theatre area (nearest power outlet). The extension cord was significantly larger and more intrusive than would be a pair of speaker wires. Daft nonsense.
Good idea with the split audio tracks on your mics, but at least on my headphones you can't tell. A Binaural mic is probably the best way to do that and even then it'll be less apparent than being in the room.
Thank you, Linus!!! I know the video is old, but I just finished buying the HT-A9. I'll connect them to a voltage regulator, and hopefully, my home theater setup will last for many years. I found it at an excellent price.
Being deaf in my right ear is great. I can save a bunch of money on not bothering to buy any surround sound stuff since I can't tell the difference anyway. Also a good thing that I can force my headphones to mono audio when video editors do cute things like that in the video.
@@3nertia You misunderstand. The time, money, and everything else he has poured into this channel over the last ten years are what he spent to get something like this. It's not "nothing" or "basically free." He runs an entire company with a few dozen employees, and started with tech reviews out of his car's trunk.
Also, every one of these "free" items has to be declared as taxable income. It's really no diferent from Sony simply handing over cash to sponsor the video.
