Girlfriend Approved TV Setup! - Sony HT-Z9F Showcase
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,645 words · ~8 min read
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so alex already has actually a pretty decent uh movie and tv watching setup
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but one of the biggest problems with it is
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the girlfriend appeal factor he's just using like standard monitors
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instead of something a little classier for those of you who don't know monitors
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means powered speakers not just this kind of monitor
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speaking of class thank you for being the classy guy and leaving the gigantic
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heavy box for me to deal with by myself here so sony sponsored this video where
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we're going to be upgrading his setup with the htz9f
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this is a dolby atmos surround capable speaker bar that apparently doesn't care
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what size or what shape your room is in order to achieve its virtual surround
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and top firing speakers and they also threw
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in one of their x900f tvs for good measure so let's go see if we can fix
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things up a little shall we all right
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kind of wish we'd brought a dolly oh how nice of you to catch up
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you know i've kind of got the heavier load here today's going to be an
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interesting lesson on both the benefits and the drawbacks of kind of like
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standards-based marketing because we're gonna see that you know
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when you have atmos that's better than not having atmos
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oh oh boy so this is the setup then i see you've
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got all the features you've got the uh
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egyptian guy on the front i actually don't really know what brand that is
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you've got your convenient aux cable for plugging it you use this for your phone
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use it for the laptop actually so i'm guessing you were getting some
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some vibration transfer issues here and this this is
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not really that came with wonderful shut up
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yeah that came with them shut up i can't tell if you're joking or not right now
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no 100 because they sound really great like
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right here so then as long as we're watching tv
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like this then everyone's very comfortable near-field monitors good time very very
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very comfortable oh i love this very professional
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high-grade speaker wire we've got going on here with convenient red and black coloring
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do you need a hand with this i think you're supposed to carry these with two people well i'm carrying it is
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that a 55 inch yeah oh so the one we're putting in is a lot bigger yeah 65.
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i hope it doesn't like take over the space
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it's a very first world problem we're going to just put this in here
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can i help you with this this is this is totally fine
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what the hell is this i forgot about that
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oh good it lights up why why would you put that on there i've always gotten
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such a kick out of the boxes for sound bars cause like
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it looks really stupid so i guess sound burpers
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ah i'm taking up the stubble for now
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so part of the the fancy magic tech in this
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guy is that unlike other dolby atmos sound
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bars which rely on upward firing speakers
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this one achieves the virtual overhead surround
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effect that it has with only three
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forward firing speakers yeah i have no clue how they do that and
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then that's part also of what makes it
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not care what kind of room you're in because it's not actually bouncing
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the signals so it must just be something to do with some kind of fancy engineering of like a
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delay of some sort yeah there's like delays so you hear it like i have no
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clue sound is freaking complicated because there's a lot more to it than
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just doing this one earlier and like this one later because if you think about it how
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would you have three-dimensional perception of sound how would you know if something is over top of you well it
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actually has to do with like the way the sound waves like bounce inside the shape
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of your ear and like your brain learns to understand that and the and the the
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way that the volume changes as it has to kind of like bounce around in there so
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it's like not trivial to do something like this
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there you go okay tv's on but what speakers is it wait do we even
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have it plugged into the sound bar yet uh no
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do you have the quick start guide so i'm plugged into the
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tv arc yup awesome did it switch on its own
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switching audio to external wow yeah getting started searching for devices
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bravia 4k connecting to your wow is that all that
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i have to do are you a grill guy or a naked guy
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i'm thinking grill really if the whole point of this is like
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better girlfriend appeal yeah we're we're putting the grill on we'll put the
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grill in all right that's fair don't forget we need room for the sub
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yep uh where do you want to put that i think that side personally but you can
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go whichever route you oh i was planning on putting it like way over here oh
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right it's wireless yeah it's a wireless sub so like that's one of the reasons
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why i was like i didn't really want to get a sound bar because you have to like
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put the sub yeah so i was kind of thinking just like stealth mode behind
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the plan yeah we go behind the plant no one knows it's there also one really great feature that i get
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with this is the ability to turn the bass down
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right that wasn't a thing with the monitors
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which is a problem if you want to watch a movie at like one in the morning
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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
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thinking so too okay cool sub for connected wow that was easy
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really oh um yeah i probably should wi-fi is probably
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fine from here yeah it is okay it's fine until you hit that concrete wall no i'll
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read it to you i'll read it to you
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is it two three seven foo
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okay 106. six just wait wait what was that do you
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know which html we plugged it into yeah two two okay i just clicked on one
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there we go yes 4k
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all right so we can launch blu-ray disc player
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oh man we have planet earth 2 in here oh that's way better yeah
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all right we should do the demo disc anyway just so we can hear the atmos
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stuff
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this all sounds like it's kind of coming from the front yeah it really does
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oh there we go
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i was like are we supposed to be impressed right now
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let's try that again shall we
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yeah that's that's much wider now
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so but it's just like a make it good button yeah there's a big old button
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it's just vertical surround okay
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now i'm getting some yeah definite stuff going on around me
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these are pretty cheesy demo animations though yeah
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i mean this sounds nice sony
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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
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away you are setting speaker settings oh here we go
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wow that is quite the measuring tape you've
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got yourself there sir so we're going to call that nine feet
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yeah and we can probably say the subwoofer is what 11. all right well do
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you want to add the satellites yeah all right let's try
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how do we know um i think that we just hit link on those and maybe it'll just
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find them okay not connected connected
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with a subwoofer oh i guess we got to do the subwoofer since we did manual
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linking oh so cool it has chromecast built in yeah it's just a nice oh hello
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okay all right oh damn
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what is that
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not bad yeah it's a good thing you guys have concrete walls here
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i could be sold on that being uh sitting in a rainstorm
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yeah i also like if i was blindfolded and he told me that there are speakers
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there i'd probably believe you yeah
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yeah it really gives you the the 360 with that yeah
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so there it is the sony ht z9f sitting
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pretty taking what once was quite a cluttered setup to a very clean one it's
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super impressive how they were able to create that much of a surround sound
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effect using just the three front-facing speakers not just horizontally but also
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vertically with dolby atmos and it's made all the better adding the two
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dedicated rear speakers creating a particularly immersive movie and tv
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watching experience yeah i'm impressed
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well enjoy yeah i will
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so thanks to sony uh thanks to you guys for watching if
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you disliked this video then i guess you just hate alex
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and you don't you don't want to do that and you don't want him to have nice things if you liked it though hit like
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