Sony BRAVIA Theater Bar 8 with 11 speakers
Product Highlight
- Hear cinema-style surround sound all around you with 360 Spatial Sound Mapping.
- Sound is auto calibrated to your room’s characteristics with Sound Field Optimization.
- Supports industry-standard audio formats including Dolby Atmos, DTS:X, and IMAX Enhanced.
- With 11 speaker units, hear exceptional acoustic performance and precise room filling spatial audio.
- Expand the cinematic experience with optional wireless subwoofer (SA-SW3 or SA-SW5) and rear speakers (SA-RS3R or SA-RS5).
- Pair with compatible BRAVIA TVs to control the soundbar from the TV menu and hear elevated audio with Acoustic Center Sync.
- Use BRAVIA Connect app to easily control BRAVIA Theater from your smartphone and change volume, sound profiles, and advanced settings.
- Supports video formats 4K HDR, 8K HDR, Dolby Vision and HDMI 2.1 gaming features 4K120, VRR, ALLM.
- Level-up with compatibility for BRAVIA TV exclusive features for PS5 – Auto HDR Tone Mapping and Auto Genre Picture Mode.
- Wirelessly stream music with support for Spotify Connect, Apple AirPlay 2 and Bluetooth.
- Bring your music to life with high-res audio compatibility, low-res upmixing, and 360 Reality Audio.
Product Feature
Enjoy cinematic moments together
New 360 Spatial Sound Mapping technology with 11 speaker units delivers immersive surround sound to a wider area, so everyone can share the experience.
Cinematic sound for a wider audience
BRAVIA Theatre Bar 8 combines physical and phantom speakers, creating a wider surround sound field that covers more of the room.
Ultimate surround with 360 Spatial Sound Mapping
Experience the ultimate in home surround. 360 Spatial Sound Mapping technology creates 5 phantom speakers in front of you and reflects sound off the ceiling and walls, enabling cinema-style surround sound from a single soundbar.
Enjoy wider surround sound coverage
Now more people can enjoy the same immersive surround experience. By using phantom speakers, 360 Spatial Sound Mapping technology achieves wider coverage than conventional virtual surround systems.
Unleash the full potential of 360 Spatial Sound Mapping
Add optional wireless rear speakers for an even more expansive sound stage. Working with the rear speakers, the Bar 8 creates up to 11 phantom speakers, including speakers behind you for that authentic cinema feel.
Add a wireless subwoofer and rear speakers for fuller, richer sound
To complete the cinematic experience, combine Sony’s optional wireless rear speakers with an optional subwoofer and enjoy sound with even greater impact.
Sound straight from cinema
Bring authentic cinema surround sound quality to your living room. BRAVIA Theatre Bar 8 not only supports industry-standard formats including Dolby Atmos and DTS:X, but also has IMAX Enhanced certification.
Upmix stereo content to surround sound
Sony's new upmixer delivers rich surround sound even from stereo content. Its innovative algorithm extracts and redistributes individual audio objects to immerse you in 3D sound. While upmixing, AI Sound Separation processing detects human voices and makes them sound clearer.
Makes everywhere the best seat
It doesn’t matter which seat you’re in. It doesn’t even matter what your room’s acoustics are like. Sound Field Optimization lets everyone experience movie theatre surround sound.
Optimized sound for maximum enjoyment
We’ve made surround sound simple. Sound Field Optimization not only calibrates sound based on speaker position, it also takes your room’s acoustics into account, and your listening position too.
Speaker placement made simple
Adding rear speakers? Don’t worry about finding the perfect position. Sound Field Optimization calibrates sound based on their location and uses phantom speakers to fill any gaps in the surround stage.
Calibrated to suit your room
No need to remodel your home to get movie theater acoustics. Sound Field Optimization analyses your room's acoustic characteristics, then uses advanced signal processing to overwrite them with those of a movie theater.
The best seat is where you are
Enjoy quality surround sound wherever you're sitting. Just run calibration with our smartphone app, BRAVIA Connect, and BRAVIA Theatre Bar 8 will detect your position in the room and optimize sound to suit.
Outstanding acoustic performance with 11 speaker units
There’s more to great surround sound than signal processing alone. Your physical speakers need to deliver exceptional acoustic performance too – and BRAVIA Theatre Bar 8 doesn’t disappoint.
Outstanding acoustic performance with 11 speaker units
There’s more to great surround sound than signal processing alone. Your physical speakers need to deliver exceptional acoustic performance too – and BRAVIA Theatre Bar 8 doesn’t disappoint.
Quad woofer delivers powerful bass
The Bar 8 may be slim but it delivers remarkably powerful, punchy bass thanks to a built-in quad woofer.
Side speakers fill the space with sound
Side speakers reflect wide directional sound off the walls, filling your entire room with expansive sound and giving entertainment a real sense of drama and scale. The ambient sound recognized by the algorithm contributes to the expansive sound too.
Hear sound from overhead
Up-firing speakers reflect sound off the ceiling for immersive overhead audio. 360 Spatial Sound Mapping creates phantom ceiling speakers for even more atmospheric sound.
X-Balanced Speaker Unit
The speakers’ unique rectangular shape maximizes the diaphragm area for punchy bass. It also reduces driver excursion and maintains sound pressure, ensuring less distortion and greater vocal clarity.
With BRAVIA, home becomes cinema
Bring the emotion and excitement of a movie theatre home. Pair BRAVIA Theatre Bar 8 with a BRAVIA TV for an unmatched audio-visual experience, immersing you in every scene as never before.
TV and soundbar in perfect harmony
Step up to a completely cinematic experience. Acoustic Center Sync enables the Bar 8 to use your compatible BRAVIA as a center speaker. So sound comes from the screen, adjusted as part of one integrated speaker system.
Crystal clear voice. Precise dialogue.
No more muffled voices. Combined with compatible BRAVIA, our new Voice Zoom 3™ powered by AI machine learning recognizes human voices and amplifies or reduces their volume so even faint dialogue sounds loud and clear.
Effortless control with BRAVIA
Control surround sound easily with your BRAVIA TV remote. Sound settings automatically appear on the BRAVIA Quick Settings menu for easy control of features, like Sound Field and volume.
Experience more with the latest formats
Get the most out of all your entertainment. BRAVIA Theater Bar 8 supports the latest audio and visual formats, taking movies, games and music to a whole new level.
Movies feel so real
With its HDMI 2.1 capability, BRAVIA Theater Bar 8 ensures the original picture quality of any source is preserved, right up to 8K HDR.
An immersive gaming experience
Lose yourself in gaming. Enjoy immersive overhead sound with the PlayStation 5 console, optimized picture settings by Auto HDR Tone Mapping and Auto Genre Picture Mode when connecting compatible BRAVIA TVs and PS5 console. This product also supports VRR, ALLM and SBTM for more realistic gaming.
From cinema to music venue
Give your music the sound stage it deserves. With BRAVIA Theatre Bar 8 it's easy to stream your favorite tracks and enjoy every detail in high-quality upmixed sound.
Stream music from your favorite services
It's not all about movies. You can also enjoy music in high-quality upmixed sound. Built-in support for Spotify Connect and Apple AirPlay lets you play all your favorite tracks.
Bluetooth connection
Stream audio content wirelessly. Bluetooth technology makes it easy to enjoy music, podcasts and more from your smartphone, tablet or laptop.
DSEE Ultimate
Using Edge-AI, DSEE Ultimate (Digital Sound Enhancement Engine) upscales compressed digital music files in real time, restoring acoustic details for a richer listening experience.
Lose yourself in supreme music quality
Bring your music to life as never before. Enjoy tracks the way the artists intended with High-Resolution Audio. Or discover 360 Reality Audio for a truly immersive live music experience.
So easy to use
BRAVIA Theatre Bar 8 makes surround sound simple. From initial set-up to smartphone control, it's all about minimum effort, maximum enjoyment.
Do it all with BRAVIA Connect
The BRAVIA Connect smartphone app guides you through initial settings, assists with troubleshooting, and lets you control volume, sound field and more. It also notifies you about software updates and lets you control a compatible TV too.
Set up in seconds
Simply plug in the Bar 8, connect to your TV using HDMI, and power on. With LAN, HDMI IN and HDMI OUT (eARC), you’re all set to enjoy a new spatial surround sound experience.
Accessible for all
To help people who are blind or have low vision set up the soundbar, tactile dots indicate a QR code for the BRAVIA Connect app, which offers screen reader support. Tactile dots on the back panel indicate the eARC HDMI terminal for connecting to a TV.
Space-saving design
The supplied spacer allows the soundbar to sit tidily over the TV stand for an integrated look that saves you space.
Environment in mind
Sony’s home audio products are designed not only for excellent sound experience but also with the environment in mind. We are committed to using less virgin plastic in our products and packaging.
Product Specification
Bluetooth Communication (Receiver)
AAC
Yes
SBC
Yes
LDAC
Yes
Color
Color
Black
Firmware Update
via Network
Yes
Function for Custom Installation
Control Features
CIS IP Control: Yes
Controller Connectivity
Certification (Crestron/Control4/Savant): Yes, Certification (IHIJI): Yes
Function with BRAVIA
ACOUSTIC CENTER SYNC
Yes
VOICE ZOOM
Yes
Quick Setting Menu
Yes
Interfaces
Display
LED indicator: Yes, LED Indicator OFF Mode: Yes
Button on main unit
Power: Yes
HDMI
Number of Input/Output: 1 / 1 (eARC/ARC), eARC: Yes, 3D pass through: Yes, 4K/60p/YUV4:4:4: Yes, 8K/60 YUV 4-2-0 10bit (Non compression): Yes, 4K/120 YUV4-4-4 10bit (Non compression): Yes, HDR: Yes, Dolby Vision: Yes, HLG (hybrid log gamma): Yes
Speaker Terminal
S-Center out: Yes
WI-FI
Wi-fi method: Yes, IEEE802.11 version: a/b/g/n/ac
Network Service
Spotify Connect
Yes
AirPlay 2
Yes
Power
Power Consumption
Power Consumption(On Operation) *approx: 60W, Power Consumption(On Standby mode) *approx: Less than 0.5W, Power consumption(Bluetooth® standby mode) *approx¹³: Less than 2.3W Power consumption(Network standby mode) *approx: Less than 2.3W
Power Supply
Power Requirement: 120 V, Power frequency: 60 Hz
Power Cable Length
Bar Speaker (mm): 1600
Plug details
AC plug type: A
Power Setting
Auto Standby: Yes, Network / Bluetooth Standby Mode: Yes
Shop Front Mode
Built in Demo
Yes
USB playback demo
Yes
DEMO mode(1/2/3/4)
Yes (Yes/Yes/-/-)
Sound Function
Sound Mode
Sound Field: Yes
Sound Effect
Night Mode: Yes, Voice Mode: Yes
Sound Adjustment
Subwoofer volume: Yes(w Option Woofer), Bass level: Yes, AV Sync: Yes, Rear Speaker volume: Yes(w Option Rear), Advanced Auto Volume(AAV): Yes, Audio DRC: Yes, Mute: Yes, Rear level: Yes
Sound Enhancement
DSEE Ultimate: Yes
Surround
Dolby Speaker Virtual: Yes, Dolby Surround: Yes, Neural:X: Yes
DCAC Feature
Sound Field Optimization: Yes, mic for DCAC: Yes(built-in)
Speaker Layout
Speaker Structure
11 units
Speaker Unit(Side)
Full Range
Number of speaker: 2, Enclosure Type: Acoustic suspension, Unit size (mm): 46 x 54, Unit size (inch): 1 13/16 x 2 1/4, Driver Unit: cone, X-Balanced Speaker Unit: Yes
Operation
Easy Setup
Yes(BCA)
Speaker Unit(front)
Woofer
Number of speaker: 2, Enclosure Type: Acoustic suspension, Unit size (mm): 45 x 90, Unit size (inch): 1 13/16 x 3 5/8, Driver Unit: cone, X-Balanced Speaker Unit: Yes
Tweeter
Number of speaker: 2, Unit size (mm): 10, Unit size (inch): 13/32, Driver Unit: soft dome
Upfiring Speaker
Upfiring Speaker: 2, Unit size (mm): 46 x 54, Unit size (inch): 1 13/16 x 2 1/4, Driver Unit: cone, X-Balanced Speaker Unit: Yes
Speaker Grill
Speaker Grill (Bar)
Bar grill type: fixed, Front Grille Material: Fabric
Speaker Unit(Center)
Woofer
Number of speaker: 2, Enclosure Type: Acoustic suspension, Unit size (mm): 45 x 90, Unit size (inch): 1 13/16 x 3 5/8, Driver Unit: cone, X-Balanced Speaker Unit: Yes
Tweeter
Number of speaker: 1, Unit size (mm): 22, Unit size (inch): 7/8, Driver Unit: soft dome
Wireless Function
Wireles Surround (with optional wireless speakers)
Yes
Amplifier
Amplifier Type
Digital Amplifier: Yes, S-Master HX: Yes
Number of Channel
11ch
Output Power
Front Woofer(Reference): 45W+45W, Front Tweeter(Reference): 45W+45W, Center Woofer(Reference): 45W+45W, Center Tweeter(Reference): 45W, Side Speaker(Reference): 45W+45W, Enabled Speaker(Reference): 45W+45W
Bluetooth Specification
Bluetooth communication(RX / TX)
RX/-
A2DP
Yes
AVRCP
Yes
Bluetooth version
5.2
Bluetooth Standby
Yes
Application
Sony | BRAVIA Connect
Sony | Home Entertainment Connect via Wi-Fi: Yes
Weight and Measurements
Dimensions (Approx.)
bar speaker (WxHxD) mm: 1100 x 64 x 113, bar speaker (WxHxD) inch: 43 3/8 x 2 5/8 x 4 1/2, carton type: Box, Carton (WxHxD) mm: W1204 x H137 x D250
Weight (Approx.)
bar speaker (kg): 4.7, bar speaker (oz): 10 lb 6 oz
Decode Format
High Resolution Audio
Yes
360 Reality Audio
Yes
HDMI input
DTS 96/24: Yes, DTS:X: Yes, IMAX ENHANCED: future update, LPCM: 2ch/5.1ch/7.1ch, LPCM fs: -192kHz/24bit, MPEG-H 3D Audio BL profile(Level3/Level4): Yes, 360 Reality Audio: Yes
HDMI ARC
Dolby Digital: Yes, Dolby Digital Plus: Yes, Dolby Digital Plus/Atmos: Yes, Dolby Dual mono: Yes, DTS: Yes, DTS 96/24: Yes, LPCM 2ch: Yes, LPCM fs: 48kHz/24bit
HDMI eARC
DTS ES: Yes, DTS 96/24: Yes, DTS:X: Yes, IMAX ENHANCED: future update, LPCM: 192kHz/24bit
Supplied Accessories
Remote Commander
Model Name: RHT-AH513U, Batteries for remote commander: Yes
Cable
TV center speaker mode cable, HDMI Cable, AC Cord
Instruction Manual / Reference Guide
English(US) or English(GB): Yes, French or French(CA): Yes, Spanish or Spanish(LA): Yes
Others
Wall mounting bracket: Yes, Wall mounting template: Yes, Foot: Yes
Interface
HDMI
HDCP2.2: Yes, HDCP2.3: Yes, 18Gbps: Yes, 40Gbps: Yes, x.v.Color (xvYCC): Yes, HDMI control: Yes, Scene Select Sync: Yes, Home Theater Control: Yes, BRAVIA Sync: Yes, HDMI CEC: Yes, HDMI standby through: Yes
