Sony announced an all-new premium wireless speaker, the SRS-RA3000. This latest Sony speaker comes with the company’s unique spatial sound technologies and packed with smart features. It fills the room with the user’s favorite background music. The ambient room-filling sound creates a calm atmosphere.
Perfect for everyone, this speaker allows users to immerse themselves in music. It creates a calm and unobtrusive atmosphere where music is the perfect companion every day.
Design & Construction
The RA3000 offers the beauty of Sony’s unique spatial sound technologies anywhere at home. This Sony device achieves omnidirectional sound with deep bass by using a full range speaker. There’s also an Omni-diffuser that spreads sound throughout the room in every direction. Additionally, a dual passive radiator to produce deep bass.
Meanwhile, the speaker’s overlapping beam tweeters form a wavefront that goes upward, which delivers sound vertically. This helps fill the space with ambient room-filling sound, making sure that the RA3000 hits the sweet spot anywhere in the room.
The Sony SRS-RA3000 also has a smaller body and humidity resistance. It’s the perfect companion that enables users to bring the music anywhere in the home.
Sound & Multimedia
Ambient room-filling sound
With Sony’s unique spatial sound technologies, the RA3000 recreates the ambient room-filling sound experience. It’s like a well-designed café inside the home. Unlike most speakers that spread sound horizontally, this speaker spread background music both horizontally and vertically. This is possible with the Immersive Audio Enhancement(IAE) and Sony’s 360 Reality Audio content playback.
The IAE, based on Sony’s unique algorithm, transforms 2-channel stereo tracks into ambient room-filling sound. The speaker diffuses sound both wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling to envelop the listener in all directions. The ambient room-filling sound creates a calm, relaxing atmosphere, creating the right ambiance for chatting with family and friends.
Meanwhile, the 360 Reality Audio provides the best ambient room-filling experience. It incorporates three-dimensional sound location data. With this feature, the RA3000 can analyze the location data within and optimally allocate the sound to the speaker’s structure effectively. The 360 Reality Audio is also compatible with several music-streaming services. Listeners can access approximately 4,000 songs in 360 Reality Audio from artists like Alicia Keys, Lil Nas X, Megan Thee Stallion, Noah Cyrus, Zara Larsson, and more.
Connectivity
The RA3000 fits into everyday life as seamlessly as it fits into any home. Users can choose several convenient ways to enjoy music. They can pair the speaker with a smartphone, laptop, or tablet using Bluetooth technology. Music also directly streams in high quality over a home Wi-Fi network. Perfect for music lovers of all kinds, this wireless speaker provides an option of an analog connection to prevent details from being lost. The RA3000 is also compatible with Spotify Connect and Chromecast built-in for added convenience and flexibility.
The RA3000 is compatible with a Google Assistant-enabled device with Chromecast built-in and Amazon Alexa-enabled devices. Anyone can control the music played on the speaker with just your voice. The speaker can also be grouped with multiple compatible devices for multi-room playback using the Google Home app or Amazon Alexa app.
At the touch of the fingertips, it is also easy to control this Sony speaker from a smartphone with the Sony | Music Center app. From the app, control your playlist, adjust EQ settings, or even turn on/off the Immersive Audio Enhancement and Auto Volume feature with the app.
Moreover, lower latency wireless connectivity with a TV and enhance the TV’s audio performance is available. Connect the RA3000 to compatible BRAVIA televisions via Bluetooth connection.
Other features
Every room has a different acoustic condition. The sound characteristics can be affected by various aspects of the room. Through sound calibration, the RA3000 considers the acoustic conditions of the room. Then it optimizes its output to create ambient room-filling sound. The RA3000 provides effortless auto adjustment, which takes place in the background while enjoying favorite tracks. Every time users restart the SRS-RA3000 after moving it to a new location in the house. Automatic recalibration is activated for optimum audio performance.
Additionally, the Sony SRS-RA3000 will analyze each track and automatically play them at a consistent volume. Users can say goodbye to the inconvenience of constantly picking up their smartphone or remote to adjust the volume after every few tracks.
Pricing & Availability
The Sony SRS-RA3000 will be available in the Philippines soon.
