Sony BRAVIA Theater Trio 3-Unit Home Theater Audio System Soundbar HT-A8

I’ve read many reviews of the Sony BRAVIA Theatre Trio, but very few have tested it in what I consider its full potential configuration—with the BRAVIA Theatre Rear 9 speakers and one or two of Sony’s top-of-the-line Sub 9 subwoofers. In my opinion, to make a fair comparison with the BRAVIA Theatre Quad, the Trio really needs to be evaluated in this configuration.I’m upgrading from the Sony BRAVIA Theatre Quad, which I used with the Sony SA-SW5 subwoofer. For this review, I tested the Sony BRAVIA Theatre Trio with the Sony BRAVIA Theatre Rear 9 speakers and the new Sony Sub 9.I can say without

​After Bose dropped support for my Lifestyle 650, I needed a modern, premium audio system to take its place—and the Sony BRAVIA Theater system exceeded every expectation.​Setup was an absolute breeze. Using the BRAVIA Connect app, the entire installation process was completely flawless, pairing the components without a single hiccup.​The audio performance is on another level. Thanks to the 360 Spatial Sound Mapping, paired with the BRAVIA Theater Rear 9 wireless speakers and Sub 9 subwoofer, the room is filled with rich, immersive sound that delivers a genuine theater experience at home. Deep,

We have been very happy with Sony TV’S and decided to add this speaker trio to upgrade the stock sound system.This system has a lot of very high tech sound engineering that has been built into the speakers. I’m not going to describe all the features but you need to go to Sonys site on this system and watch the short video. It’ll blow your mind.The product was very well packaged and protected. Set up was easy (it played well with our Sony TV) using the App. Sonys set up App can be a bit challenging and definitely needs work but in the end was usable and paired the system with our Sony TV.The ma

Exceptional sound quality

FYI, I purchased the Sony BRAVIA Theater Sub 9 SA-SW9 to pair with this. The sub paired easily with the system and matches it quite well. I also exclusively used 4K UHD Blu-Rays to review this system.I upgraded from a modest soundbar/sub setup, and wow, this is a clear upgrade. The volume seems to just fill up the room and is totally immersive. My first "WOW" moment was when I put on 1917 and a couple of planes flew directly over the camera. It really sounded and felt like a plane was flying straight through my house! I was blown away. Guns sound like guns and have real impact. Dialogue is cry

Lack of center channel control makes finding a sound setting on the app in order to hear clear dialogue a real challenge. Most of the time you get blasted by other sound effects cuz you have the volume set so loud to be able to hear plain talking. A real frustration

The Sony Bravia Theater Trio system is an extremely compact system that can be installed where other larger audio systems may not dare to go. Offering some level of positional audio using room reflections and clever speaker tuning via the setup application and microphone, the Theater Trio does give the feeling that it is trying to be more than your ordinary soundbar and satellite system.Ultimately, I found the system to be lacking in the ability to reproduce the large sound you would expect from a Speaker Set at this price point. While the audio does a convincing job in the correct configurati

Speaker system was very easy to setup and sounds great. Install documentation was clear and configuration and pairing of speakers was simple. Everything comes in marked packaging and the install manual Configuration is done through an app. In my case I used the iOS app to configure my system. Doing so required me to have a Sony account to log into.There are multiple solutions for mounting the speakers, in my case I ultimately chose to mount them onto the walls about centered on the TV and about 1 foot to either side. The pictures are before since we wanted to play around with speaker placement