This is NOT a Soundbar - Sony HT-A9 Home Theater System
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2024
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Sony has been well known for its home entertainment products; Playstation, TVs, and home theatre sounds systems. The HT-A9 is a reasonably robust system that doesn't replace a full-fledged speaker setup, but when you need something simple, easy, and performs almost as well, you should check this out!
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:05 HT-A9 Unboxing and overview
4:40 Furniture setup
7:00 Sony A90J TV setup
9:05 Setting up the speakers
13:20 Trying the speakers
14:07 Initial impressions
15:08 Further test
15:38 Movie test
16:40 Closing thoughts - Наука та технологія
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.
Thats what the new LTT labs yeeting chamber will be for
Contents of the package?
@@bruhWTH43 No, they’re saying that the price of the drop test is the contents of the packaging that gets dropped
@@masteroogway6660 "this right here is the yeeter 9000"
@@bruhWTH43 more like what didn't he drop
Linus and Jake renovating the house and everything really have the "two kids with too much money on their hands in a candy shop" vibe and I love it
living vicariously over here
Don't forget who put the money in their hands and sent them to the candy shop.. The Sponsor Uncles.. 😂
Except Jake doesn't get any candy to take home.
@@neondemon5137 I beg to differ, the Intel sponsorship was already a great bonus.
Most accurate comment I've seen ever
Gotta love how linus manages to make his entire house sponsored one item at a time
Also see the 10 million dollar gaming compound.
When done he gonna call it My House™ by GlassWire, and everytime he opens the door there's a segway for a sponsor lol
Yeah he really knows how to embed it ;)
Not to forgot that he put in more than 12 years of hardwork to get where he is now guys. You're seeing the result, not the process.
@@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 this series for two things:
1. I enjoy the process of Linus teching the house.
2. Jake and Linus just being goofy dudes renovating together.
That's my favorite, when thier are genuine bro moments Linus & Luke especially
I like how they try to tell him where or what to do and he's like nah ill put it here then realizes it cant go there 🤣🤣
I love the idea of Linus walking into the office, looking at his employees and going "you guys are my friends right?"
And they all look at each other before one says "Yes" and the others nod along.
@@shepherdsgamingrun Jano silently shaking his head "no".
You guys look like you could lift a couch
Yeah I love how he actually has to double check
“Depends, Can I have a pay raise?”
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.
This is a great idea. LTT, do this.
Won't happen when Sony already sponsored this video
@@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.
@@ayuchanayuko That's one of the aspects, not the main goal. Else electro static loudspeakers would be way more popular
Here waiting to see how they amend this video after the most recent video he made.
Same.
I put a link it got deleted, cant even send links to LLT's own videos
Yep.
@@arthur1670 lmg probably disabled links in comments to deter spam bots. Apparently UA-cam doesn't care what link it is, even if it's a UA-cam link.
Wdym
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.
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
Not having to pay for any of their nice expensive gear probably helps - leaves a lot more money for bills and a lot less stress heh
@@3nertia he paid with his time getting LTT started and to keep it going.
@@3nertia if you’re referring to their camera gear I’m pretty sure red and Sony don’t just give them the cameras they are using
@@Djjolly037 well yes they bought like 6? I think Blackmagic Ursa 12K Minis for their own production.
@@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.
You have to love Linus's dedication to build quality testing. He insists on personally drop testing every single product he is sent to review.
damn, they need a legit drop test station in their new lab.
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"
Hi . What movie were they watching? Where the Hummer was and big cloud of dust ???
😂😂
@@Rom2Serge Monster Hunter movie "inspired" by the game. Is atrociously bad apparently.
Linus: “If you at least have two functioning eyes”
Me: *Cries out of missing eye*
Same. I've had one eye since I was three and had the couch incident.
@@thecheeseman31415 lmao
You are Big Boss, and so am i
same bro. 20% lefft, right is decour at best.
I'm nearsighted so not quite as bad but certainly not fully functional (I do plan to get laser eye surgery at some point but even that's not perfect).
As soon as Linus said: "Pivot Pivooot" brought back Ross memories...
Yeah, I just saw this part and went to see the comments... Hehehe
@@angelocabral2001 same here 🤧
same here
Linus has peaked. He dropped an actual TV. Luckily Jake caught it.
Well he dropped a whole PC test bench before!
Just casually pushes it over without thinking about it. Glad Jake was standing right there otherwise yeah.
Don’t forget about the 3090
Someone's got to make a long complitation of linus dropping things
@@amagicalbear9929 one exists 😂
"C'mon Mr. Techtips!"
"Oh God I dropped it."
LTT in a nutshell
LTT are Drop Horror pioneers.
I didnt expect him to drop that TV 😂🤯
So do you have to change the hdmi cable every time you switch between devices (Apple TV, PS5, etc)?
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 bought this, you could afford HDMI hub
Just get a hdmi switch and plug it between the sources and the box duh
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)
@@jesselioce Don't you duh people who don't know something you know. We're just humans, not walking Wikipedias. If you want to be treated kindly, treat others kindly first.
"I'm a lot more optimistic about this now that I've seen how big it is."
- Things I've never heard but wish I had.
yo you're from 2006
Come on, NASA. I’m sure space exploration warrants some great suggestive exclamations.
@@banban5568 You don't see this everyday :))
@@Arko_gfx Meh. Not THAT impressive.
nasa official
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.
Why not run the wires behind the baseboards?
Wow! Best of luck!!
@@Jehty_ With building materials that old taking them off could cause more damage than good
@@Jehty_ Seconded here. You can buy snap on raceway baseboards.
@@Mundilfari_ I doubt that they are using the original baseboards. Or if they are using them they will come of anyway for refurbishment.
On this episode of Linus Moving Tips, Linus nearly kills Jake with a couch.
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!
great job, angry raccoon!!
Big props to Linus for just rolling with the "Linus has no friends" joke.
Yes. Joke.
@@techlinked Techlinked commented instead of the main channel
first time seeing that
Who has time for friends when you're trying to take over all of tech media?
Linus has no friends, Linus has Family.
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This series is prepping us all for if we are ever going to buy a house
*buy a house _and_ have money after that isn’t just for the mortgage
I think we all collectively decided people born after 1990 or so don't get to ever own a house in their lives, for some reason :/
In this market? Cant buy shit.
I'm just hoping the housing market crashes so I can actually buy a home. Way too inflated right now.
Haha, funny joke
Buy a home? Bold of u to assume any of us will ever b able to afford one (atleast here in america)
It's always entertaining to watch Linus and the crew moving just about anything.
I was so happy when Linus made ‘the pivot’ joke from friends 😂
Love how Linus can pay his employees to help deck out his house. Lol
He can also get all the stuff he has in his house sent for free from the companies too haha
You mean his friends?
You've never worked for construction i see
Life goals…between “free” labor/tech support and free products Linus definitely got it made
@@nathansstuff1547 yes, but apparently he has to call them employees (according to the video lol)
It felt really nice to be sitting between Linus and Jake during the surround demo. Thanks Editor!
This episode has so much of a "Friends" vibes to it. Both the "Pivot! Pivot!" and also them sitting in the couch together and resting their legs.
Thumbs up for the Friends “PIVOT!“ reference.
PIVOT!!!
Oh i dont think its gonna pivot anymore
I smiled when he shouted PIVOT! If Linus isn't a Friends fan, he's at least cultured enough to shout it.
I would be surprised if the whole "both sitting on a couch with flip-out-leg-put-thingys" wasn't a nod to friends as well ;)
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 :(
I wonder if having the box mounted higher up would help with that...
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.
Lol ad victim
@@cheekypasta55 yeah I mean what if you had a party for sports or whatever and people were standing? Seems like a red flag
You have been helping me to build my rigs since Ivy Bridge Build, over here in the UK. Great to see your progression and building your business.
my older bro used to watch this all the time before he passed thank you man for the joy u have givin him rip craig
I do really like this setup. The thought of only 4 speakers with no wires seems really nice
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.
the speakers still need power though
except you need wires for all 4 speakers
Linus: "It creates 12 virtual speakers" ...... Linus drops box ... "It creates 10 virtual speakers" .... Linus drops box ... "It creates 8 virtual speakers"
Linus drops box .... well you can see where this is going.
@Taistelu_pelto really he legit broke them?
@Taistelu_pelto wat
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.
how many can you dasiy chain?
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?
10:05 oh god... the amount of cringing by the thought of that tv falling down.
Hej Robin 😉
that would be another #LinusDropTips if that happened 😂
For sure, that wobble gave me a panic.
Same.. And before that he was talking about placing the speaker next to it, and I was just like: that shit is gonna fall when the bass drops.
*cough* floatplane *cough*
I understand that you should’ve been moved in by now if it wasn’t for various logistics stuff getting in your way, but I really do appreciate these updates on your new home.
If you didn't watch Linus' videos from before these, he got a letter from the local community, his progress has been halted for weeks
@@MuhammadKharismawan I'm out of the loop on this, what happened?
@@MuhammadKharismawan I saw the previous video, I just forgot the name of the group responsible for the delays.
Can't lose with Sony. Always been one of the best with audio especially
This is the kind of audio tech I have been waiting for... really. Spatial 3d audio has awlays been something I have been amazed with since I first heard Q-sound from my sega cd games.
PIVOT! PIVOT! “The SO approval factor” I feel is something you've had to contend for quite a bit.
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.
i absolutely love the future, this is absolutely beyond amazing.
Jake: "my fear is that we will damage the couch."
little did Jake knew about the couch plans..
I can't wait to hear about Jake throwing out his back doing stuff like this and having to fill out an incident report form for HR on wan showo
Knowing them they will probably make a video or 2 out of it
Jake: “Come on Mr.Tech Tips”
Linus: “Oh My God I dropped it”
I love how new tech can baffel you guys in a good way or bad way. and you try to figure it out!!!
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!
Linus spends more time with his employees than his family
Unfortunately a lot of people do though. People work most of their lives and when they go home they eat and sleep.
Every manager/ceo/business owner ever. It’s the price you pay for good money.
@@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.
@YT-Watcher he gets everything for free bud
It's obvious Jake and Linus are becoming close friends, it's wholesome to watch their videos together.
They are obviously good friends, it's Linus boyfriend after all!
The couch scene is absolute gold!
It's always fun watching someone test and evaluate tech that I'll never be able to afford.
Sonys audio has gotten awfully impressive over the last few years.
Sony has always been known for their audio, even back in the Walkman days
@@Sarafan92 yes, but between early 2000s and mid 2010s, they are basically nobodies with all heir flops.
Recently tho, they put out a lot of hits.
ive really been impressed to see Sony resurge to the level of reputation they had in the 90s; i fully expected them to go the way of JVC by now
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
You know it's gonna be a good video when he drops something literally not even a minute into the video lmao
my favorite Tech show just referenced my favorite sitcom.... what a great way to start my weekend.
Great video! Felt like I was totally sitting between you guys. Love your videos! Wish I had money to buy some of this stuff.
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.
no it always mean your left, or your left ears. I havent see anything speaker saying its stage left.
@@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).
Again....... Wow, I'm surprised Linus hasn't made a rule against himself holding non-empty boxes.
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.
So much for appending this video
@Dark Rookie I guess, im just a cynical bastard who has reason to assume that they dont care to append this
@@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...
Pivot! Pivot! Wow man this was hilarious. I already thought the same in the intro where the scene was shown
"Friends" Ross: Pivot! Pivot! XD
Linus, watching you updating your home again feels like going back to the good old days, which believes or not was only 2019. Thank you.
I was not ready for my surround sound system to kick on and get a full left channel of Linus at 1 in the morning. Good job editor!
Linus you have made a nice life for yourself and inspire TONS of young people to to be like you and succeed... I'm proud to say I watch your videos, you are a GOOD MAN. :) Congrats on your success :D
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 agree !
Damn, I didn’t realize that Jake is a couch connoisseur. I didn’t think the seating was THAT bad!
Crazy I was just looking up sound bars and got this notification. Just in time 😂
This guy just wont stop dropping stuff
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.
“Oh, my butthole! Sorry Jake!”
Lmfao
I love that system, I use it with the SW3 subwoofer and it sounds great. I don't have any dropouts
i love the left and right audio config. I wish it could happen more
Poor Linus, he's been waiting so long to get into this house, any opportunity to get something done in there gets him SO excited.
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.
> where the center dialogue is coming from
that's why you buy a Sony TV that can act as center channel ;)
@@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.
It was a really cool video thank you LTT team 🥳
jake has the best job EVER. being a mate but paid to do so.
"It's almost like a... [concrete color]"
Me: Retro Grey? Like the kind that will yellow from sun/oxygen into ugly "90's beige?"
Indoor smoking
I was getting serious Compaq PC speakers vibes from this
I was thinking about my first computer. Retro Grey is very fitting :)
A lot of manufacturers use pbt plastics for these, as they mold easily and don't yellow.
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 literally wanted this! But it’s soo much!
After watching that intro all I wanted was some mention of a pivot and I got it and I am pleased.
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.
Linus is a true tech guy, so after a year he will rip everything out and replace it with new stuff. lol
He will probably move again in a year or two xD
@@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
Actually genius making this home makeover a long series of videos. The videos will end up paying for the home itself haha
Loved the Friends reference with the couch "PIVOT"
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.
But why not. Literally almost every major reviewers videos are so called paid review already.
ive been trying to get my hands on that ht-a9 forever now, and they are unavailable everywhere - it looks awesome
Yeah it's flying off the shelves with all the good reviews it's been having, and sony aint making enough.
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.
I'm surprised with the kidney-selling price they're practically unable to be found. Its insane.
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.
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.
Thank you for your review im going to end up getting it as well , found one for 950euros second hand :’). Did you get the 400euros subwoofer with it ?
Sadly soundbars still can no replicate a true surround speaker placement. You can hear it better if they're side by side listening.
wait.. maybe i misunderstood what you meant but isnt the HT-A9 much more $$ than that sony soundbar?
soundbar is already quite expensive, top end budget of what i would expect most anyone to spend on sound unless you host a lot of movie nights or something. So the HT-A9 being much more expensive, id certainly hope itd be significantly more awesome especially for filling a big room with good, convincing surround sound.
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 UA-cam. Then there's the limits of whatever you were listening on.
I concur. My theater room isn’t as big as this room and I went with Samsung’s Q950A. Phenomenal sound for a sound bar in a much smaller room.
I love LTT’s hilarious evolution
way better than I thought this would be
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.
I cant wait to go to Linus' new house to kick back and relax, only for him to ask "Who are you?"
I recall some dicassion a while ago about the virtues of soundbars and not having to "fiddle with surround sound systems", and here we are with a full-blown surround sound system again.
Loving that FRIENDS reference at 5:40
I hope Jake is receiving hazard pay for the tasks he's required to do in Linus' house lol
Dude should get free gfx cards for life! 🤣
0:53 What a classic drop to start off an LTT video !! ☕☕
5:30 straight outta Friends… He’s even yelling PIVOT!!! 😂
that was a really great idea to split you guys into separate channels for that tests!
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
Watching Linus move a couch makes me feel so much better about myself
whats up with you, he is not some super rich superhuman like you think he is,, just a normal guy
@@Carwash1989 a normal guy who can't carry a couch. Not to brag but I can carry a couch
idk why it just felt so cozy just watching Jake and Linus vibin to the sound setup on a couch
I would honestly love to see some videos with the spacial sound in my headphones its kinda cool