 So Alex already has actually a pretty decent 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 gonna be upgrading his setup with the HTZ 9F 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 x900 F TVs for good measure So let's go see if we can fix things up a little shall we? Alright 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 gonna 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 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 to 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 a no, 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, hundred percent 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 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 with 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 I'm gonna just put this in here Do you need can I help you with this? No, this is this is totally fine What the hell is this I forgot about that oh 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 because like it looks really stupid I guess sound bar first I'm taking up the subwoofer 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 don't know 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 TVs on But what speakers is it? Wait, do we even have it plugged into the soundbar yet? No You have the quick start guide. So I'm plugged into the TV arc. Yeah, awesome Switching audio to external Wow. Yeah Getting started searching for devices bravia 4k Connecting to your dude. 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 Put the grill on. All right, that's fair Don't forget we need room for the sub Yep, where do you want to put that? I think that side personally that you can go whichever way 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 soundbar because you have to like put The sub yeah, so it's 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 was 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 So before connected Wow, that was easy Really? Oh Yeah, I probably said Wi-Fi is probably fine from here. Yeah, it is. Okay. It's fine. You hit that concrete wall No, I'll read it to you. I'll read it to you Is it two three seven foo? Yep Okay, 106 Six just wait. Wait, what was that? Do you know which HDMI 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. Oh, yeah All right. We should do the demo disc anyway, just so we can hear the at most 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 what 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 the sound is 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 gonna call that nine feet Yeah, and we can really see the subwoofers what 11. All right. Well, do you want to add the satellites? Yeah, all right, let's try How do we know I think that we just hit link on those and maybe it'll just find them Okay, not connected connected was subwoofer. Oh, I guess we got to do the subwoofer since we did manual linking That's so cool. It has chromecast built in. Yeah, it's just a nice. Oh, hello Okay, all right, oh damn 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 us sitting in a rainstorm Yeah, I also like if I was blindfolded and you told me that there are speakers there. I'd probably believe you Yeah, it really gives you the the 360 with that So there it is the Sony HTZ 9f 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 So thanks to Sony Thanks to you guys for watching if you disliked this video then I guess you just hate Alex 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 Get subscribed or maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we featured at the link in the video description