so alex already has actually a pretty decent uh movie and tv watching setup
but one of the biggest problems with it is
the girlfriend appeal factor he's just using like standard monitors
instead of something a little classier for those of you who don't know monitors
means powered speakers not just this kind of monitor
speaking of class thank you for being the classy guy and leaving the gigantic
heavy box for me to deal with by myself here so sony sponsored this video where
we're going to be upgrading his setup with the htz9f
this is a dolby atmos surround capable speaker bar that apparently doesn't care
what size or what shape your room is in order to achieve its virtual surround
and top firing speakers and they also threw
in one of their x900f tvs for good measure so let's go see if we can fix
things up a little shall we all right
kind of wish we'd brought a dolly oh how nice of you to catch up
you know i've kind of got the heavier load here today's going to be an
interesting lesson on both the benefits and the drawbacks of kind of like
standards-based marketing because we're gonna see that you know
when you have atmos that's better than not having atmos
oh oh boy so this is the setup then i see you've
got all the features you've got the uh
egyptian guy on the front i actually don't really know what brand that is
you've got your convenient aux cable for plugging it you use this for your phone
use it for the laptop actually so i'm guessing you were getting some
some vibration transfer issues here and this this is
not really that came with wonderful shut up
yeah that came with them shut up i can't tell if you're joking or not right now
no 100 because they sound really great like
right here so then as long as we're watching tv
like this then everyone's very comfortable near-field monitors good time very very
very comfortable oh i love this very professional
high-grade speaker wire we've got going on here with convenient red and black coloring
do you need a hand with this i think you're supposed to carry these with two people well i'm carrying it is
that a 55 inch yeah oh so the one we're putting in is a lot bigger yeah 65.
i hope it doesn't like take over the space
it's a very first world problem we're going to just put this in here
can i help you with this this is this is totally fine
what the hell is this i forgot about that
oh good it lights up why why would you put that on there i've always gotten
such a kick out of the boxes for sound bars cause like
it looks really stupid so i guess sound burpers
ah i'm taking up the stubble for now
so part of the the fancy magic tech in this
guy is that unlike other dolby atmos sound
bars which rely on upward firing speakers
this one achieves the virtual overhead surround
effect that it has with only three
forward firing speakers yeah i have no clue how they do that and
then that's part also of what makes it
not care what kind of room you're in because it's not actually bouncing
the signals so it must just be something to do with some kind of fancy engineering of like a
delay of some sort yeah there's like delays so you hear it like i have no
clue sound is freaking complicated because there's a lot more to it than
just doing this one earlier and like this one later because if you think about it how
would you have three-dimensional perception of sound how would you know if something is over top of you well it
actually has to do with like the way the sound waves like bounce inside the shape
of your ear and like your brain learns to understand that and the and the the
way that the volume changes as it has to kind of like bounce around in there so
it's like not trivial to do something like this
there you go okay tv's on but what speakers is it wait do we even
have it plugged into the sound bar yet uh no
do you have the quick start guide so i'm plugged into the
tv arc yup awesome did it switch on its own
switching audio to external wow yeah getting started searching for devices
bravia 4k connecting to your wow is that all that
i have to do are you a grill guy or a naked guy
i'm thinking grill really if the whole point of this is like
better girlfriend appeal yeah we're we're putting the grill on we'll put the
grill in all right that's fair don't forget we need room for the sub
yep uh where do you want to put that i think that side personally but you can
go whichever route you oh i was planning on putting it like way over here oh
right it's wireless yeah it's a wireless sub so like that's one of the reasons
why i was like i didn't really want to get a sound bar because you have to like
put the sub yeah so i was kind of thinking just like stealth mode behind
the plan yeah we go behind the plant no one knows it's there also one really great feature that i get
with this is the ability to turn the bass down
right that wasn't a thing with the monitors
which is a problem if you want to watch a movie at like one in the morning
do we want to do the wireless speakers now or should we do this later i kind of want to try it without first yeah i was
thinking so too okay cool sub for connected wow that was easy
really oh um yeah i probably should wi-fi is probably
fine from here yeah it is okay it's fine until you hit that concrete wall no i'll
read it to you i'll read it to you
is it two three seven foo
okay 106. six just wait wait what was that do you
know which html we plugged it into yeah two two okay i just clicked on one
there we go yes 4k
all right so we can launch blu-ray disc player
oh man we have planet earth 2 in here oh that's way better yeah
all right we should do the demo disc anyway just so we can hear the atmos
stuff
this all sounds like it's kind of coming from the front yeah it really does
oh there we go
i was like are we supposed to be impressed right now
let's try that again shall we
yeah that's that's much wider now
so but it's just like a make it good button yeah there's a big old button
it's just vertical surround okay
now i'm getting some yeah definite stuff going on around me
these are pretty cheesy demo animations though yeah
i mean this sounds nice sony
honestly it's kind of idiot proof there's not really a lot to change in here is there yeah where's the how far
away you are setting speaker settings oh here we go
wow that is quite the measuring tape you've
got yourself there sir so we're going to call that nine feet
yeah and we can probably say the subwoofer is what 11. all right well do
you want to add the satellites yeah all right let's try
how do we know um i think that we just hit link on those and maybe it'll just
find them okay not connected connected
with a subwoofer oh i guess we got to do the subwoofer since we did manual
linking oh so cool it has chromecast built in yeah it's just a nice oh hello
okay all right oh damn
what is that
not bad yeah it's a good thing you guys have concrete walls here
i could be sold on that being uh sitting in a rainstorm
yeah i also like if i was blindfolded and he told me that there are speakers
there i'd probably believe you yeah
yeah it really gives you the the 360 with that yeah
so there it is the sony ht z9f sitting
pretty taking what once was quite a cluttered setup to a very clean one it's
super impressive how they were able to create that much of a surround sound
effect using just the three front-facing speakers not just horizontally but also
vertically with dolby atmos and it's made all the better adding the two
dedicated rear speakers creating a particularly immersive movie and tv
watching experience yeah i'm impressed
well enjoy yeah i will
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