Sony HT A9 Home Theatre, HT A7000 Soundbar With Dolby Atmos Launched In India: Price, Specifications

Last Updated on January 21, 2022 by Anu Joy

Sony’s new HT-A9 home theatre system and HT-A7000 soundbar are two entirely different products but promise to offer an immersive surround sound experience to the user. The HT-A9 home theatre system comes with four individual speakers, which comprises a tweeter, X-Balanced speaker, and an up-firing speaker. The HT-A7000 is positioned as a premium soundbar, which comes with five speakers comprising dual beam tweeters, up-firing speakers, and built-in subwoofers.  Both the Sony HT-A9 and the HT-A7000 support DTS-X, Dolby Atmos, and 360-degree Reality Audio. 

Sony HT-A9 Home Theatre Features, Specifications

The Sony HT-A9 Home theatre, with its four individual speakers, offers flexibility to the user. They can be placed asymmetrically to meet different requirements, making it the perfect choice for rooms that aren’t designed with a home theatre in mind. Also, there’s no requirement for the speakers to be placed at a certain distance from each other or at a specified height. The Sony HT-A9 offers a 7.1 channel setup with up to 504W of sound output.

Sony states that the HT-A9 uses Sound Field Optimisation tech that utilises the dual microphones in each speaker unit to assess the relative height and position to create 12 phantom speakers. This provides a 360-degree Spatial surround sound effect in the room. The Sound Field Optimisation feature can be switched on via the remote and the four speakers communicate wirelessly with each other for auto-calibration. 

The HT-A9 home theatre system also comes with the flexibility to add an optional SA-SW5 or the SA-SW3 subwoofer for folks who want more bass. The system supports Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0, optical port, HDMI eARC via the HDMI 2.1 pass-through port. Apart from Dolby Atmos and Dolby Digital, it also supports Dolby Dual mono, LPCM 2ch, and LPCM fs(48kHz) audio formats. It supports AAC, SBC, and LDAC codecs for Bluetooth.

Sony HT-A7000 Soundbar Features, Specifications

The Sony HT-A7000 offers customizability as it can be paired with surround speakers or subwoofers at a later stage if the user wishes to.  The soundbar comes with up-firing drivers, two beam tweeters on either side and subwoofers to deliver a 7.1  channel surround sound experience with 500 watt sound output. The soundbar comes with the latest HDMI 2.1 protocol, which does the heavy lifting of providing 8K HDR and 4K 120Hz pass through. Other connectivity features include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0, HDMI eARC, and optical port. It gets virtual sound features such as S-Force PRO, Vertical Surround Engine, Dolby Speaker Virtual, Dolby Surround, and Neural:X. This one too supports AAC, SBC, and LDAC codecs via Bluetooth.

Sony HT-A9, HT-A7000 Price, Availability

The Sony HT-A9 home theatre system coupled with the SW3 subwoofer is priced at ₹1,70,980, and if you opt for the SW5 subwoofer, you will have to shell out ₹1,97,980. 

The Sony HT-A7000 soundbar, coupled with the SW3 subwoofer, is priced at ₹1,50,980. Pairing it with an SW5 subwoofer will take the price to ₹1,77,980. Sony will sell you the SA-RS3S surround speakers for ₹30,990 if you wish to add them. 

Both the HT-A9 home theatre system and HT-A7000 Soundbar are available for purchase right away.