Sony BRAVIA Theater Trio with 3 Speaker Units with Dolby Atmos and DTS:X - HTA8

Sony HTA8 BRAVIA Theater Trio with 3 Speaker Units with Dolby Atmos and DTS:X

Immersive Cinema Sound for Big Screens
Transform your living room into a cinematic escape with the Sony BRAVIA Theater Trio HTA8. Made for ultra-large TVs, this flagship home theater system combines three distinct speaker units and 360 Spatial Sound Mapping to deliver a breathtakingly expansive soundstage. Whether you’re watching blockbusters or streaming your favorite series, enjoy true surround sound that places you in the center of the action.

Designed in Collaboration with Sony Pictures Entertainment
Experience audio the way filmmakers intended. Through an exclusive partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, the BRAVIA Theater Trio is fine-tuned for cinema content, bringing the emotion and subtle details of every scene to life. With a dedicated center speaker for clear dialogue and left/right units for wraparound audio, you’ll never miss a line or sound effect.

Expandable, Flexible, and Perfect for Any Room
The BRAVIA Theater Trio not only creates a surround field wider than your TV screen but also simulates a real cinema’s speaker layout using both physical and phantom speakers. Add optional wireless rear speakers or dual subwoofers to extend the soundstage even further, creating the ultimate home theater experience. Support for Dolby Atmos®, DTS:X®, and IMAX® Enhanced formats ensures you’re ready for any cinematic adventure from any seat in your room.

Key Features

• Introducing a simple three-unit home theater system with wireless front speakers that matches the scale of even the biggest screen.
• Created in close collaboration with Sony Pictures Entertainment for studio-crafted sound true to filmmaker’s' intent.
• Experience the ultimate in home surround with 360 Spatial Sound Mapping creating up to 24 phantom speakers.¹
• Get cinematic surround experience calibrated specifically for your room with Sound Field Optimization.
• Use the included USB-C calibration microphone to automatically optimize audio based on your room’s acoustics.⁶
• Get premium streaming experience with support for Dolby Atmos®, DTS:X®, and IMAX® Enhanced certification.^{2, 7}
• Enjoy wireless music streaming from your smartphone with Bluetooth® technology.⁵
• Your stereo content is up-mixed into rich surround sound with AI Sound Separation for clearer voices.
• Expand your setup with dual subwoofers and rear speakers for an even more immersive experience.⁸
• Hear immersive overhead audio with enlarged up-firing speakers and crystal-clear dialogue from the X-Balanced center speaker.
• Give your favorite music a boost as DSEE Ultimate restores acoustic details for a richer listening experience.
• Use BRAVIA Connect app to easily set up, calibrate, and control your system from your smartphone.⁴
• Pair with compatible BRAVIA TVs to take advantage of Voice Zoom 3™ for enhanced dialogue.³
• Supports video formats 4K HDR, 8K HDR, Dolby Vision® and HDMI 2.1 gaming features 4K120, VRR, ALLM.^{2, 11}
• Space-saving design allows the soundbar to sit tidily over the TV stand for an integrated look.⁹

Features

• Blockbuster sound—built for the biggest screens
  Our flagship model, BRAVIA Theater Trio expands sound far beyond the screen. Perfect for today’s ultra-large TVs, its three-speaker design and 360 Spatial Sound Mapping generate a vast, room-filling soundstage—bringing cinematic scale and immersion into your living room.¹
• Cinematic sound, made for your home
  Designed for today’s big screens, BRAVIA Theater Trio’s three-unit system delivers wide, immersive sound. Through collaboration with Sony Pictures Entertainment, we're bringing home immersive sound, optimized for cinema content.¹
• Three-unit system. One immersive experience.
  Introducing a simple home theater system that matches the scale of even the biggest screen. Left and right speakers wrap you completely in immersive sound, while a dedicated center ensures dialogue is clear, making every scene feel cinematic.
• Sound shaped with Sony Pictures Entertainment
  Created in close collaboration with Sony Pictures Entertainment, this system brings studio-crafted sound into your home—capturing the emotion and detail intended by filmmakers.¹⁹
• Rewriting the rules of surround sound
  By combining physical and phantom speakers, BRAVIA Theater Trio creates a surround field that stretches wider than the screen, delivering cinematic immersion that pulls you into every scene.
• Recreates a cinema speaker layout and acoustics at home
  Phantom speakers are precisely positioned based on a cinema layout, while 360 Spatial Sound Mapping simulates both direct and reflected sound—capturing the scale, depth, and immersive acoustics of a real theater to create a rich, cinematic sound field.¹
• Unleash the full potential of 360 Spatial Sound Mapping
  Add optional wireless rear speakers for an even more expansive sound stage. Working with the rear speakers, BRAVIA Theater Trio delivers even more immersive surround from behind you for that authentic movie theater feel.¹
• Build a Cinematic Home Theater Experience
  Elevate your home theater sound with dual subwoofers for deep, powerful bass and rear speakers for an immersive surround field. Bring cinematic scale and impact to every movie night.¹³
• Sound straight from cinema
  Bring authentic movie theater surround sound quality to your living room. BRAVIA Theater Trio not only supports industry-standard formats including Dolby Atmos® and DTS:X®, but also has IMAX® Enhanced certification.^{2, 7}
• Get a fuller, richer sound with optional subwoofer and rear speakers
  Grow your home cinema with these upgrades. Dual subwoofers deliver powerful low frequencies, while rear speakers broaden the surround field. Bring bigger scale and impact to every film.¹³
• Makes everywhere the best seat
  It doesn’t matter which seat you’re in. It doesn’t even matter what your room’s acoustics are like. Sound Field Optimization lets everyone experience movie theater surround sound.
• Sound Field Optimization
  Enjoy a cinematic surround experience calibrated specifically for your room. Sound Field Optimization ensures that every seat is the best seat in the house, regardless of your room's unique acoustics.
• Calibration Microphone
  This included USB Type-C microphone connects to your mobile device to allow accurate automatic calibration that matches your room characteristics. A simple step during setup measures frequency, phase, and delay characteristics in your viewing space, to tailor the audio output to its unique acoustic requirements.⁶
• The best seat is where you are
  Enjoy quality surround sound wherever you’re sitting. Just run calibration with our smartphone app, BRAVIA Connect, and BRAVIA Theater Trio will detect your position in the room and optimize sound to suit.⁴
• Great surround starts with powerful acoustics
  There’s more to great surround sound than signal processing alone. Your physical speakers need to deliver exceptional acoustic performance too—and BRAVIA Theater Trio doesn’t disappoint.
• Hear sound from overhead
  Newly enlarged up-firing speakers reflect sound off the ceiling for immersive overhead audio. 360 Spatial Sound Mapping creates phantom ceiling speakers for even more atmospheric sound.¹
• Powerful 2-way speakers
  Front left and right speakers use a 2-way design with woofer and tweeter, delivering deep lows and crisp highs. The result is powerful, balanced sound that anchors your home cinema with clarity.
• Enhanced center clarity
  The center speaker features a new 2-way speaker with 2 woofers and a tweeter. With larger drivers, engineered for greater clarity and presence, dialogue stands out, while powerful sound fills your space with cinematic impact.
• X-Balanced Speaker Unit
  The speakers’ unique rectangular shape maximizes the diaphragm area for punchy bass. It also reduces driver excursion and maintains sound pressure, ensuring less distortion and greater vocal clarity.
• Materials engineered for purer sound
  An aluminum ring and copper cap are coupled with the lightweight driver cone to suppress harmonic distortion. Combined with the powerful magnet, you'll enjoy cleaner, more neutral sound across all frequencies.
• Flexible setup for any layout
  Designed for any room, this system delivers cinematic sound wherever it’s placed. Flexible setup, uncompromised surround.
• Clean, wireless cinema sound
  Forget cluttered cables. With HDMI for the center speaker and wireless links to the front left and right speakers, you get a streamlined setup that keeps your room tidy while filling it with surround sound.
• Wall-mounted or free-standing
  Use them free-standing or wall-mounted—whichever fits your space.
• Easy to use
  BRAVIA Theater Trio makes surround sound simple. From initial setup to smartphone control, it’s all about minimum effort, maximum enjoyment.
• Do it all with BRAVIA Connect
  The BRAVIA Connect smartphone app guides you step by step, covering everything from connection to calibration and everyday control.⁴
• Set up in seconds
  Just one HDMI cable and power gets you connected. Additional ports like HDMI IN are also available. Complete setup and sound calibration are guided through the BRAVIA Connect app.⁴
• Guided setup from the very first step
  Open the box and you’ll find a QR code on the top insert. One quick scan takes you to a guided setup that makes getting started simple and stress-free, ensuring a smooth out-of-box experience.¹⁰
• Where home becomes cinema
  Bring the emotion and excitement of a movie theater home. Pair BRAVIA Theater Trio with a BRAVIA TV for an unmatched audio-visual experience, immersing you in every scene as never before.
• Crystal clear voice. Precise dialogue.
  No more muffled voices. Combined with compatible BRAVIA, our new Voice Zoom 3™ powered by AI machine learning recognizes human voices and amplifies or reduces their volume so even small dialogue sounds loud and clear.³
• Effortless control with BRAVIA TV
  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.¹⁴
• Space-saving design
  The supplied spacer allows the soundbar to sit tidily over the TV stand for an integrated look that saves you space.⁹
• Experience more with the latest formats
  Get the most out of all your entertainment. BRAVIA Theater Trio supports the latest audio and visual formats, taking movies, games and music to a whole new level.
• An immersive gaming experience
  Lose yourself in your gaming. Enjoy immersive overhead sound with the PlayStation®5 console, and optimized picture settings using Auto HDR Tone Mapping and Auto Genre Picture Mode when connected to compatible BRAVIA™ TVs. This product also supports VRR, ALLM and SBTM for more realistic gaming.^{15, 16}
• Movies feel so real
  With its HDMI 2.1 capability, BRAVIA Theater Trio ensures the original picture quality of any source is preserved, right up to 8K HDR.^{2, 15}
• Lose yourself in premium music quality
  Bring your music to life as never before. Enjoy tracks the way the artists intended with High-Resolution Audio.
• One system, many ways to listen
  From movies to playlists, BRAVIA Theater Trio supports multiple sound modes—upmixing, multi stereo, and upconvert—so whatever you play is delivered with immersive audio that fills your room.
• Upmix stereo content to surround sound
  Sony’s upmixer delivers rich surround sound even from stereo content. Its innovative algorithm extracts and redistributes individual audio objects to immerse you in 3D sound. While upmixing, AI Sound Separation processing detects human voices and makes them sound clearer.
• Amplify the moment with Multi Stereo
  Multi Stereo enhances your listening experience by playing the same sound from both front (L/R/Center) and rear speakers, creating a full-room sound boost. Feel the sound reverberate with greater intensity, amplifying every moment.⁸
• Stream music from your favorite services
  It’s not all about movies. You can also enjoy music in high-quality upmixed sound. Built-in support for Spotify Connect™ and Apple AirPlay lets you play all your favorite tracks.^{17, 18}
• Bluetooth® connection
  Stream audio content wirelessly. Bluetooth® technology makes it easy to enjoy music, podcasts and more from your smartphone, tablet or laptop.⁵
• DSEE Ultimate™
  Using Edge-AI, DSEE Ultimate™ (Digital Sound Enhancement Engine) upscales compressed digital music files in real time, restoring acoustic details for a richer listening experience.
• Designed with the planet in mind, smart for all
  BRAVIA is designed to harmonize 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.
• 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 plastic in our packaging and recycled materials in our products. Approximately 77% of the packaging is made from recycled paper and paper-based materials to minimize the use of plastic, and approximately 87% of the fabric used on the speakers is made from recycled cloth.
• Love the planet, smart for all
  BRAVIA Theater is designed to harmonize with people’s needs while respecting natural resources. We’re accelerating our accessibility initiatives, enabling people who are visually or hearing impaired to use Sony's devices, and further expanding our environmental efforts through more responsible use of materials and sustainable manufacturing. Entertainment becomes more inclusive and enjoyable for all.
• Accessible for all
  To help people with low vision set up our soundbars, a raised square frame directs users to a QR code for the BRAVIA Connect app, which offers screen reader support. With setup and remote control operations read out loud you no longer need to memorize the layout of buttons or the order of items on the screen. Tactile dots on the back panel also guide you to the eARC HDMI terminal for connecting to a TV.^{4, 10}

Footnotes:

• ¹ 360 Spatial Sound Mapping - This feature works with optional compatible rear speaker models (SA-RS3S, SA-RS5, SA-RS8, SA-RS9)
• ² Dolby Atmos and DTS:X content compatible with streaming services or compatible content device connected via HDMI input (sold separately).
• ³ Voice Zoom 3 works with compatible BRAVIA TVs. For full compatibility list: https://www.sony.net/hav_faqopens in a new window.
• ⁴ Sony | BRAVIA Connect app must be installed on a smartphone. The smartphone and the product must be connected to the same home network. This function works with compatible BRAVIA TV and the latest software. Product availability varies by country/region. https://www.sony.net/hav_faqopens in a new window. Updating the mobile app to the latest version is required. Download app at Google Play and the App Store. Network services, content, operating system and software subject to terms and conditions and may be changed, interrupted or discontinued at any time and may require fees, registration, and credit card information. Feature availability of the integrated remote with TVs and home theater products may vary depending on home theater product.
• ⁵ Interoperability and compatibility among Bluetooth® devices vary. The Bluetooth® word mark and logos are registered trademarks owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and any use of such marks by Sony Corporation is under license.
• ⁶ A smartphone with a USB Type-C port is required to use this microphone. Smartphones without a USB Type-C port can still perform calibration, but a USB Type-C compatible device is required for precise calibration.
• ⁷ IMAX® Enhanced certification is achieved when used with compatible products. Product availability varies by countries/regions. https://www.sony.net/comp-home/
• ⁸ Rear speakers required for playback.
• ⁹ Applicable TV models: BRAVIA 9 (85"/75"/65"), BRAVIA 8 (77”/65”/55”) BRAVIA 7 (85"/75"/65"/55”), BRAVIA 5 (85"/75"/65"/55”). BRAVIA availability varies by country and region. Illustrations are for reference only.
• ¹⁰ QR Code is a registered trademark of DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED in Japan and in other countries/regions.
• ¹¹ Game title supporting VRR and/or 4K/120fps required. VRR results may vary depending on the game you're playing. If enabling VR results in any unexpected visual effects, you can turn it off at any time.
• ¹² Only compatible with high-resolution audio when wired.
• ¹³ For dual subwoofer, subwoofers of the same model are required. Please refer to the compatibility list: https://www.sony.co.jp/en/braviatheatre_2sub-modelsopens in a new window. The availability of these products may vary by country/region.
• ¹⁴ This function works with compatible BRAVIA TVs and the latest software. Product availability varies by country/region. https://www.sony.net/hav_faqopens in a new window
• ¹⁵ 4K: 3840 x 2160. 8K: 7680 x 4320 pixels. Requires HDR compatible content from supported streaming services or HDR compatible content device connected via HDMI input (sold separately).
• ¹⁶ Game title supporting 4K/120fps and/or VRR required.
• ¹⁷ Apple ID account required. Subscriptions may be required to access certain content.
• ¹⁸ Download Spotify app at Google Play and the App Store. Network services, content, and operating system and software subject to terms and conditions and may be changed, interrupted, or discontinued at any time and may require fees, registration, and credit card information.
• ¹⁹ Sound Creators evaluated the combination of BRAVIA Theatre Trio + BRAVIA Theatre Rear 9 + BRAVIA Theatre Sub 9.