Product Description

Step up your sound. Step into the scene.

Feel closer to every scene. With Dolby Atmos® and DTS:X®, this 3.1ch soundbar creates surround sound that fills your room with clear dialogue and powerful, well-balanced bass.

Don't miss dialogue. Don't miss scenes.

Hear dialogue as it was meant to be. With a centre speaker for precise voice placement and Voice mode for easy speech boost, conversations stay clear no matter the scene.

With BRAVIA, home becomes cinema

Bring the emotion and excitement of a movie theatre home. Pair BRAVIA Theatre Bar 5 with a BRAVIA TV for an unmatched audio-visual experience, immersing you in every scene as never before.

So easy to use

BRAVIA Theatre Bar 5 makes surround sound simple. Everything from setup to control is easily done with your smartphone. The app guides you step by step, leaving you ready to enjoy true cinematic immersion.

Love the planet, smart for all

We're accelerating our accessibility initiatives, enabling people who are vision or hearing impaired to use Sony’s devices, and expanding our environmental initiatives by incorporating recycled plastic into our products.

Features

Immersive, cinematic sound

Sound straight from cinema

Experience authentic cinema surround sound in your living room. Dolby Atmos® and DTS:X® creates an immersive multi-dimensional soundscape that brings movies to life as directors intended. 

Sound from above

Thanks to Sony’s virtual surround technology, the soundbar can position sound in vertical space—so you can experience three-dimensional audio without the need for in-ceiling or up-firing speakers. As well as Dolby Atmos® and DTS:X®, Vertical Surround Engine lends a more realistic, multi-dimensional sound to other formats too. 

Sound from sides

Using front speakers only, Sony’s digital sound field processing technology virtually reproduces the surround sound field, with audio coming at you from both sides. You can enjoy rich, cinematic surround sound without cluttering your living space. 

Upmix stereo content to surround sound

Sony's unique upmixer delivers rich surround sound even from stereo content. Its innovative algorithm extracts and redistributes individual audio objects to immerse you in 3D sound. 

Powerful and​ well-balanced bass

This wireless subwoofer delivers well-balanced, detailed, and powerful low end that enhances both movies and music—and with simple wireless connection, where you place it is up to you. 

Clear dialogue

Centre speaker for clear dialogue

A dedicated centre speaker ensures crystal-clear voice reproduction in every scene. From intense conversations to hushed whispers, you'll catch every word with precision, enhancing your viewing experience across all types of content. 

Voice mode

Enhances vocal clarity by boosting mid-range frequencies, making dialogue easier to hear in various scenes. For compatible BRAVIA TVs, Voice Zoom 3™ offers additional fine-tuning of dialogue for improved comprehension. 

Clear voice and precise sound image

Using a single speaker unit to reproduce a wide frequency range from bass to treble simultaneously can cause distortion and result in a muffled and unclear sound image. Our unique signal processing technology suppresses this distortion for clear dialogue and precise imaging. 

Sync with BRAVIA

Crystal clear voice. Precise dialogue.

No more muffled voices. Combined with compatible BRAVIA, our new Voice Zoom 3™ powered by AI machine learning recognises human voices and amplifies or reduces their volume so even faint dialogue sounds loud and clear.

Effortless control with BRAVIA

Control surround sound easily with your BRAVIA TV remote. Sound settings automatically appear on the BRAVIA Quick Settings menu for easy control of features, like Sound Field and volume.

The perfect partner for your BRAVIA TV

If you have a BRAVIA with a multi-position stand, you can adjust the stand to fit the BRAVIA Theatre Bar 5 neatly in front of the TV for a clean, elegant look.

Easy setup and operation

Do it all with BRAVIA Connect

The BRAVIA Connect smartphone app, when connected to compatible our home audio products, guides you through initial settings, assists with troubleshooting, and lets you control volume, sound field and more. It also notifies you about software updates and allows control of a compatible TV.

Simple remote, intuitive control

Comfort and simplicity at your fingertips. Our remote's hand-fit design and easy volume and sound controls keep your experience effortless. 

Control at your fingertips—volume, bass, sound modes

Enjoy instant control over your audio with multiple sound modes, including Night Mode, Voice Mode, Bass Adjustment, and more. This remote makes it easy to fine-tune your sound for any occasion. 

Bluetooth® connection

Stream audio content wirelessly. Bluetooth® technology makes it easy to enjoy music, podcasts and more from your smartphone, tablet or laptop. 

Give your favourite music a boost

When an original music source is compressed, it loses the high-frequency elements that give detail and richness to a track. Our Digital Sound Enhancement Engine (DSEE) faithfully restores these to produce high-quality sound that’s closer to the original recording. 

Effortless control with BRAVIA

Control surround sound easily with your BRAVIA TV remote. Sound settings automatically appear on the BRAVIA Quick Settings menu for easy control of features, like Sound Field and volume.

Environment & Accessibility

Aiming to achieve a smaller footprint

Our Road to Zero initiative aims to reduce environmental impact at every stage of our business. By 2050, we’re striving for zero environmental footprint—driven by innovation and sustainability. 

Environment in mind

Sony’s home audio products are designed not only for excellent sound experiences but also with the environment in mind. We are committed to using less virgin plastic in our packaging.

Approximately 64% of the packaging is made from recycled paper and paper-based materials to minimise the use of virgin plastic.

Love the planet, smart for all

BRAVIA is designed to harmonise with people’s needs while respecting natural resources. We're accelerating our accessibility initiatives, enabling people who are blind or deaf to use Sony’s devices, and expanding our environmental initiatives by incorporating recycled plastic into our products. Entertainment becomes more inclusive and enjoyable for all. 

Accessible for all

To help people who are blind or have low vision set up the soundbar, raised square frame indicate a QR code for the web help guide, which offers screen reader support. Use the built-in iOS VoiceOver/Android TalkBack function to assist with setup and remote control operations using voice narration. You no longer need to memorise the layout of buttons on the remote control or the order of items on the screen. Tactile dots on the back panel indicate the eARC HDMI terminal for connecting to a TV. 

What's In The Box

• AC Cord
• Batteries for remote commander
• HDMI Cable
• Quick Setup Guide
• Reference Guide
• Remote Control
• Wall mounting template
• Warranty Card

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