Sony BRAVIA Theater Bar 9 Soundbar for TV Surround Sound Home Theater with 13 Speakers, Dolby Atmos/DTS:X, 360 Spatial Sound Mapping, HDMI 2.1 and Supports Spotify Connect/Apple AirPlay (HT-A9000)

Superb sound quality. Best paired with rear speakers. Intuitive app.

This soundbar has amazing sound quality without distortion. It works really well when paired with a Sony Bravia TV. I love that adding a subwoofer and extra speakers is easy, when/if I chose to do so. It is quite larger than the Vizio soundbar I had prior, but still fits nicely on my tv cabinet and looks nice under my mounted TV.

I initially listened to this sound bar at Best Buy and loved it, but for the cost I couldn't justify buying it, till I got home. I bought a new Sony 75 inch X90L and since I had a beautiful picture why not have some awesome sound to match it. I mean for a sound bar it's pretty dang good. I've played different movies with different sound play back and they all sound great. Dolby Atmos really does work quite well. I will probably end up buying some Sony wireless speakers to really make the sound pop. The bass is pretty good already. It's not a house rattling bass, but for now it's good enough.

I have seen some negative reviews of this item but I think it's a really nice speaker. There are definitely better and higher quality speakers but with my Sony Bravia TV and the Sony app it works well for me

Bought the bar 8 after much research out on reddit and reviews wherever i could find. Arrived without any damage but looked like it was a returned product as some of packaging was already open. Setup looked pretty simple with the app. Only thing was software update took 40mins easy and stuck at 65% for most time. The sound was great but for a 5.0.2 channel config. I am used to my master series a90j sound thats great and bar 8 sound was instantly dissappointing. Spent whole day tweaking settings on tv and bar 8 but couldnt justify since bar 8 couldnt sound same/better than my a90j from 2021. In a medium-large living room this just wasnt cutting it. Maybe sony doesnt want to undermine the master series sound or bar 8 is for those computer monitors, i just dont understand its placement anymore and the discounted pricing of $700 now makes more sense. Just get the 7.1 system(sonos arc or bar 9) and avoid bar 8 altogether if you have similar or better setup than me. No wonder not many people are talking about it online, i was considering building out with bar 8- rear speakers and sub but i dont see a point now.

Makes deep bass voices clear sounding and easy to understand.. Sounds great. Makes chainsaw on left side of screen sound come from left side of sound bar, very niffty but sound bar alone does not replace surround sound system. Has good bass.

I read a bunch of reviews on this soundbar so I bought ,let me say it really sounds incredible. Let's start on the packaging very nicely done 5 star on that. The setup,they could have done way better on this I didn't get any instructions with it so that sucked but an hour later figured it out. Sony makes you do all kinds of connecting thru their App which you have to do ,it's definitely not a plug and play. So it's all connected and it does sound incredible. Follow the app steps and the soundbar will send out different sounds to learn the room for optimum performance..and you can reset it for different rooms if needed. It's pricy for sure but we'll worth it. Enjoy. Update ..so I mounted this with no wires being shown but what a pain,you woukd think when they made this all the wires would be on 1 side ,not the case. So beware if your going to mount this your going to be making extra holes in the wall. Good luck.

If you have a Sony OLED w/ Acoustic Surface Audio this will be a huge disappointment in all but the largest vaulted-ceiling rooms. Why?Because Sony Center Sync disables all the sound localization smarts & turns your TV into a 1-dimensional low-rent center ch.EPIC Fail. Or else you can just not use it at all. Either way - the bar kills it.Also, if you enjoyed DTS sound at all, ever, e.g. Bravia Core, the bar will **disable** DTS until you buy more speakers. It literally holds your previous options for ransom. So you have worse sound in 2 ways at once on some of the best (SONY!) content.It's the like soundbar division hates the TV division & never talks to them.Really just fails to leverage all the potential of a Sony-Sony setup.Lastly, the Sony-Sony (A80L + Bar9) HDMI-CEC implementation will make you want to scream. And scream. And throw things.What an epic let-down.