Sony Theatre Bar 9/SA-RS5/SA-SW5

Sony’s latest soundbar plus surrounds and sub makes for an impressive home cinema experience

View online review whf.cm/TheatreBar9 Sony has replaced the excellent, three-time What Hi-Fi? Award-winning HT-A7000 with this, the Bravia Theatre Bar 9. It features subtler styling, a more practical design, a better app and more drivers. The HT-A7000 is still in our view the best performance-per-pound soundbar you can buy, particularly with the last stock now being sold with some huge discounts. So has Sony improved on its predecessor’s sound with this new ‘bar? There’s no end of non-Sony rivals to contend with as well, of course, most notably the Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar Plus and Samsung HW-Q990D, the latter of which is a complete system in a box. The new Sonos Arc Ultra, in its ‘Immersive Set’ guise also carries a similar price tag to the Theatre Bar 9. The rounded…

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What Hi-Fi? (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2025

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