Hey, I'm JR, training manager here at Crutchfield, and in this video we'll be talking about the HT-A7000
Sony home theater bundles. We have two bundles, both of which include the HT-A7000 sound bar; more
on that in a minute. One bundle includes the SA-RS3S surround speakers and the SA-SW3 subwoofer, the
system we have here in the studio includes the SA-RS5 surround speakers and the SA-SW5 subwoofer.
If you're looking for a simple sound bar that just makes your TV sound better, neither of these
systems are right for you. If you're looking for an immersive home theater experience that looks
fantastic, super elegant, and sounds great, either of these systems will do the trick.
These systems will work with pretty much any modern TV, however, if you have a Sony Bravia TV
that is compatible you can take advantage of some really nice integration. If you connect it with
HDMI, the sound settings for the sound bar will appear in your TV's sound settings menu. You can
also use a small minijack to go from the sound bar to the TV and accentuate your center channel
using your TV's built-in speakers. The HT-A7000 sound bar has a ton of intelligence built in, thanks
to Sony's processing. It will decode the surround sound formats of pretty much any movie, including
DTS:X and Dolby Atmos with the height effects. It will also of course make your music sound great,
even if you're just listening to two-channel music. There is something called 360 Reality Audio, though,
and it's available on Amazon, TIDAL, Deezer, nugs.net. They've partnered with Sony to create an immersive
surround sound experience for listening to music. I have listened to it on a pair of headphones,
it's even better on a system like this. You will feel like you're surrounded by a studio full of
musicians. That built-in processor also allows this system to calibrate the sound for your room using
built-in microphones on the sound bar as well as on the surround speakers. It will listen to your
room and calibrate it so that the the surround is as immersive as possible, even if your room
isn't a perfect home theater room. In addition, there's even more processing to create even more
immersive sound here. For example, Vertical Sound Engine will accentuate and add even more height
effects to your Atmos and DTS:X surround movies. S-Force Pro will add front side effects, making
the sound bar sound even bigger and wider and more spacious than it is. If you're watching a
movie that is not encoded in Dolby Atmos or DTS:X, immersive AE or audio enhancement will add those
overhead or height surround effects to those movies, thanks to Sony's incredible processing.
to get music into this system, you can do this of course wirelessly over your Wi-Fi network. It
even has Bluetooth built in. You can use Spotify Connect, you can send stuff wirelessly from your
phone whether you're using an Apple or an Android. It does do Apple AirPlay 2 and Chromecast; you can
also control the system using your Amazon Alexa or your Google Home Assistant device. Let's talk about
Bluetooth a little bit more. Not only can you send music to this system wirelessly from your
phone over Bluetooth, you can also have this system wirelessly send the TV's audio to a separate set
of headphones. This is really cool. Maybe you want to watch a movie at night, the kids are asleep and
you can't crank the system the way you want to. You want to watch a movie, though, you just need
it to not be so loud. Put on a pair of Bluetooth headphones, connect them to the HT-A7000 sound bar,
and now you have the movie sound in your head and you're not waking up the rest of the family. Let's
talk about what makes this system sound so good. The HT-A7000 sound bar alone has 11 speakers built,
in powered by 500 watts of amplifier power. Five of those speakers are front-firing with dedicated
center channel. Two beam tweeters and two upward- firing speakers really give you spacious surround
sound, and there's two subwoofers to make the sound bar all by itself sound full and rich.
This system is available with the SA-RS3S or the SA-RS5 surrounds. The threes have a 50-watt
amplifier with a front-firing tweeter and woofer. The SA-RS5 adds some really cool stuff, including
an upward-firing speaker to add even more surround effects above you, making it a 7.1.4 system.
They also have more power and a 90-watt built-in amplifier and passive radiators to add some oomph
to go 100 percent wireless for your rear surround speakers, you can do it with the SA-RS5s. The battery will
last about 10 hours, good enough for several movies, and if you need a quick charge, plug them in for 10
minutes you'll get about 90 minutes of charge, good enough for most short movies. You also have two
choices of subwoofer: the SA-SW3 features a 200-watt amplifier on a six-inch woofer in a ported cabinet;
the bigger SA-SW5 has a hundred more watts of power, so a 300-watt amplifier, a larger seven-inch
woofer, and a downward-firing passive radiator. So a much bigger, more impactful surround bass.
To get this system connected to your TV, as I mentioned earlier, you're probably going to want
to use HDMI. The sound bar has two HDMI inputs and one output, so if you want to plug in your sources
like your Blu-ray player or your cable box using an HDMI, you can take them directly to the sound
bar and then run an HDMI cable over to your TV. Or you can plug everything directly into your
TV and take advantage of Audio Return Channel, even Enhanced Audio Return Channels. So whatever you're
watching on your TV, the sound gets piped back in to the sound bar. The HDMI connections are HDMI 2.1
and they are up to date on their high-definition copyright protection level 2.3, so anything you're
watching should play great on your TV and sound fantastic. And because these HDMI connections are
2.1, they are compatible with your up-to-date gaming consoles, so you can get 4K at 120 hertz
refresh rate, even 8K. In addition to those HDMI connections, you can can also connect this to
your TV using an optical digital cable. Some of the features won't be available if you do that,
though, so HDMI is the recommended choice. There's also a 3.5 millimeter auxiliary input jack for
plugging in an external audio device, and there's a USB input on the back so you can take a USB memory
stick, load it up with music, including high-res music, plug it in and have all of that music
available to play on this system. If some of that music is compressed, don't worry. Sony has something
built in to make that compressed music sound as wide and open and spacious as your uncompressed
music. It's called DSEE, or Digital Sound Enhancement Engine Extreme AI. It's very smart and does a
really nice job of opening up your compressed music. So if you're looking for a simple, easy to
hook up, elegant, beautiful looking, amazing sounding sound bar surround system the HT-A7000 bundles
should be at the top of your list. If you have any questions about this system or really anything
else, get in touch with us. Go to crutchfield.com/contact to talk live with our advisors
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