Customer Ratings & Reviews

This soundbar sounds awesome! The audio is clear, loud, and really improves the TV experience. Voices are easy to hear, and movies feel much more immersive. Setup was quick and simple. I’m very happy with the sound quality and would definitely recommend it.

Excellent. Clean looking. Great sound and worth every dollar. Paid $849 during Xmas time. No need for additional speakers for more than basic use. You get what you pay for: so if you elect to buy a $200 soundbar, then that’s on you.

The product is great / I bought an open box excellent but it did not come in as such. Item is missing the instructions, and missing the correct cable to plug into the wall. So had to go out and buy one. I do believe that Best Buy doesn’t take the time to really look when they put an Excellent open box sticker on it. More fair and should have been much cheaper, especially missing the cable that is needed for it to work. Another thing, you should really take out the batteries from the remotes before shipping, one battery had some build up.

Bravia Theater Bar 9 with 13 speakers delivers exceptional sound quality for cinematic experience at home. While I have not tested other soundbars, it works as advertised, filling the room with immersive cinematic audio experience and integrating flawlessly with the Sony Bravia 9 TV. This is my first soundbar and Sony did not disappoint.

The soundbar is great. Nice big, full sound and was very easy to set up

Sound is powerful and immersive. The bass is excellent with the internal woofer setup and you can adjust it using the remote or app. Voice mode helped with difficult dialogue once indistinguishable with the background noise. Definitely reccomend using the *Bravia app* with the soundbar. It adjusts the audio to your sitting position and how the room takes it in.

Great soundbar with easy connection, great sound simple instructions

Amazing sound quality in conjunction with my Bravia 8II tv. The Bravia Connect app is user friendly. This unit replaces the HT-A5000 that I previously purchased.

Amazing soundbar! Works great with Sony Tv's. I paired this sounbar with the SA-SW5 subwoofer and SA-RS5 rear speakers. The whole system together produces outstanding surround sound. 360 spatial audio is top notch.

The Soundbar is heavy but the sound is excellent! The only issue is that the Soundbar Mount is separate from the Wall Mount for the 85" Bravia 9 Mini LED QLED 4K TV. The Soundbar mount will attach to the TV Wall Mount, but it doesn't allow the Soundbar to slide up to the bottom of the TV! For all of the other smaller TV sizes in this model, the Soundbar is adjustable and will slide up to the bottom of the TV. Nobody at Best Buy knew this, so my measurements for where the TV needs to be mounted were off by 3 inches! It was too late in the game to correct this problem. The new piece of furniture ordered is 30" high. The Soundbar will need to just sit on the top of the Entertainment Furniture. Check first and verify with Best Buy if you plan on purchasing this Soundbar. Their staff don't seem to know about this issue and assume that the Soundbar can slide up to the bottom of the TV. We truly miss the Entertainment Consults Best Buy used to have, but let go. Cost Savings maneuver?

This sound bar is everything that the Best Buy associate said it was. The sound is outstanding and the ability too select the different sound fields is a testament to its versatility. All in all this is one of the best eletrinics purchases we have ever made.

Sounds great and setup was not so bad. App allows you to control sound settings with ease

This is a hard review to write because this bar 8 should easily be 5 star but it is held back by some bad Sony decisions. This bar beats the A7000 and A5000 hands down from previous generation. The remote is limited and should have included the rear speaker controls maybe Sony didn't expect you to buy the rear speakers. Requires App to install the bar which might lead to future problems if app loses support from Sony. 360 spatial Sound field mode which is the selling point works better if you have a dedicated subwoofer and rear speakers. I have the SW5 and SR5 speakers supporting the bar, which integrates better with the sound field compared with the A7000. if u are watching movies from an uncompressed source like a physical disc, this bar is incredible. this is the best atmos experience I have ever heard from a soundbar. From a compressed source like streaming from netflix or itunes it sounds okay but the difference is really obvious. Sony has removed the sound modes cinema, music, auto in favour spatial sound, dolby virtualizer, and neural x. The latter 2 sound terrible. Sony needs to put in a center speaker control in the app to help increase voice volume. This sound bar needs a firmware update to enhance compressed audio quality and give users more controls like center channel and EQ settings to tailor the sound to how we like it because this 360 spatial mapping doesn't work in every scenario.

The sound quality is excellent. It is like you are in a movie theatre at home. Great compliment to the Sony Television. I would recommend this to anyone.

Great sound. Setup was easy. Doesn’t stand out in appearance.

Very good quality sound bar. Worth the price. Comes with 2 small "feet" that have soft rubber backing for elevation and not damaging whatever surface it is on. Easy to access HDMI, optical, etc ports. No digital display in it, only 3 dot lights in the lower right (white and blue colors for modes). Its not a 5-star rating because the only control over settings is via a phone app. While overall more approachable than its predecessor (HT9Z sound bar, which had horribly unstable subwoofer connection and which relied only on eARC) and with perfectly reliable subwoofer connections, it doesn't have all the settings it needs to sound right. Sound bar by itself: 2.0 connection. Sounds a bit strained trying to make a subwoofer effect with only treble speakers. Adding in the subwoofer and the woofer balances great but jumps to 5.1 setting... I have no rear speakers in my setup so sounds from "behind" are improperly loud in the side speakers from the Bar. Especially disorienting and frustrating in video games more than tv or movies. And no way to change that setting. Changing it away from "adaptive surround" to just "high quality simulated" helped, but then the volume levels between sources get wonky. I still recommend it because an app is quicker to update than firmware so I think this setting oddity will get corrected before long.

Changes everything! The sound is amazing! Can hear voices distinctly and the sound effects for background is a game changer

I’ve always wanted a sound bar for my Sony Bravia TV and I’m so glad that I went ahead and bought the sound bar eight. I never knew what I was missing. I couldn’t be more happy.

easy to setup, small and compact ,well made ,but power cord is cheap, bought and aftermarket power cord.

This soundbar is not deserving of the Sony premium badge. Nothing but constant issues from the getgo. I got distorting flatulance sound coming out of speaker and sw5 subwoofer, as well as cutouts on the rear rs5 speakers. I updated it to the latest firmware and even went through all the diagnostic steps which include resetting my router. I even tried it on another network and again, same issues. Sony pins the blame on my wireless network. However my network is top notch (verizon fios gigabit) with no issues with any other products, including my other soundbars from Samsung and Bose. Sound quality is mediocre at best. Surround effects and atmos bubble is decent. However, dialogue is absolute trash. Simply terrible and worse than some old cheap soundbars that I have used in the past. Bass is non existent and music quality is total garbage. If I could give this soundbar negative stars, I would.