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Sony HT-A9

Sony’s HT-A9 Wireless Home Theatre System encourages users to position its speakers arbitrarily, promising a uniform and immersive soundfield regardless of the symmetry of your set-up. How does it achieve this wizardry? The HT-A9 supports Sony’s 360 Spatial Sound Mapping, combining automated calibration via two built-in mics that measure the room’s height, speaker distance and location; and technology that synthesises a soundfield with both real and ‘phantom’ sources.

Each of the four speakers contains a 19mm front-facing tweeter and full range X-balanced driver, and

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