The 2023 AVRs are compatible with Sony’s SA-SW3 and SA-SW5 wireless subs and SA-RS3S and SA-RS5 wireless surrounds. Simon Cohen / Digital TrendsĪnd speaking of speakers, you now have the choice of going wireless for your subwoofer(s) and your surround speakers, giving you the best of both wired and wireless worlds. Top view of Sony SA-RS5 wireless surround speaker. The 2023 AVRs get this feature thanks to Sony’s new Digital Cinema Calibration IX - a mic-based calibration system that can measure the correct distance, angle, sound pressure, and frequency response of each speaker. It uses microphones to create a 3D map of the room, which lets it fine-tune the placement of phantom speakers when presenting 3D audio like Dolby Atmos. The company introduced its 360 Spatial Sound Mapping feature on the HT-A7000, HT-A9, and HT-A5000 speakers. It’s also fascinating to see Sony infuse its AVRs with DNA from its line of home theater soundbars. OnePlus Buds Pro 2’s spatial audio makes me want to ditch the AirPods Pro T-Mobile subscribers can get MLS Season Pass for free T-Mobile customers can now get MLS Season Pass for free Curiously, the Music Center app actually works with the 2023 receivers, letting you control source selection, volume, playback, and other functions. Sony, on the other hand, does multiroom wireless - it’s powered by the company’s Music Center app. We’ve seen AVRs from companies like Pioneer and Onkyo offer Works With Sonos, but that’s because these brands don’t have their own multiroom wireless audio solution. It lets you connect a Sonos Port, which can then automatically power on the AVR and switch to the appropriate input simply by using the Sonos app instead of having to manually perform these tasks using the AVR’s remote. The addition of the Works With Sonos capability comes as something of a surprise. The ES Series go further, with all of those new elements, plus an updated heat sink, new high-power capacitors, and lead-free solder. The STR-AN1000 gets a new chassis and subchassis, a new large capacitor transformer, a new digital circuit board, new power supply capacitors, a new preamp integrated circuit that Sony says it developed exclusively for these AVRs, and finally, a new 32-bit digital-to-analog converter (DAC). These AVRs are absolutely packed with features, which we’ll get into in a moment, but they’ve also received several new hardware changes that aren’t going to be immediately apparent just by reading the specs.
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