Better sync between the TV and the Sound Bar
Sony unified its TV and Home Audio business groups into a single business unit in December 2022. Unsurprisingly, the changes in the new L range at audio level have a lot to do with the company’s sound bars and immersive sound satellite speakers. Now, if you connect a Sony soundbar to a Sony Bravia XR TV, the TV automatically becomes the front speaker and is dedicated to voices.
The technology is called Acoustic Center Sync, and it’s available only on the X95L, A95L, A80L, and X90L. In other words, it’s available only on models with an XR processor. The X95L model has the tweeters in a high position behind the screen. On the A95L and A80L, the entire screen is one big, vibrating speaker. Don’t worry, you won’t it moving. We didn’t.
The experience of Acoustic Center Sync is subtle. It moves where dialogue comes from so that it’s closer to your head rather than the soundbar. It sounds more natural, but it’s also hard to tell the difference if you don’t experience it side by side, and can result in slightly tinnier dialogue given the weaker speaker system it’s using. Using it in conjunction with a full surround sound setup while watching James Bond get fired upon from all angles in No Time to Die, our heart rates rose a little bit.
