Many music enthusiasts often mention a term "immersion" when experiencing speaker products, which sounds a bit of a metaphysical word to outsiders, but it is actually very easy to understand. When a speaker product can accurately restore the sound, orientation and other information in the music, it will make people feel that they will be in the concert, recording studio or concert hall scene, then this feeling is the immersion that the speaker brings to you.
Understanding this term, in fact, I understand the two key elements that speaker products need to do when playing music, that is, the accurate restoration of sound and the clear sense of orientation of sound transmission. In order to achieve this goal, the application of multi-channel systems and crossover technology was born, but the arrangement changes at the physical level are always affected by actual spatial changes.
Because of this, when seeing Sony's newly released new product SRS-RA5000, the author has a lot of interest, the official positioning of it is "flagship high-resolution Bluetooth speaker", which is very chic in shape, acoustic structure of the speaker product, in the end what experience innovation, the text will give you the answer.
Unique "small waist" shape
The current Bluetooth speaker market, including HARMAN Kardon, Bose, JBL and other manufacturers, have deployed their own high-end or flagship product lines. Especially for flagship products like SRS-RA5000, which are priced at 3000 to 5000 yuan, the unified coordination of design and function will be a very important consideration dimension.
Consumers who are willing to choose them at a high price do not want to buy a "vase product" at home, and they are also unwilling to sacrifice the decorative nature of the product for the sake of function. In order to meet this part of the demand, Sony SRS-RA5000 R & D engineers have obviously put a lot of effort into the design, unlike the cylindrical structure of traditional Bluetooth speaker products, from the cross-sectional point of view, this product uses a triangle and circle combination of shape.
If you look at it from the front, you will see that in the rounded arc, but also in the waist to do the "tightening" treatment, the biggest advantage of this structure is to make the overall large body shape, not too bloated, imagine, if the overall shape is simplified to a diameter of 23cm, 32cm high cylinder, there must be no sense of design.
In terms of overall color matching, if you are a "suo fan" or have purchased Sony's audio products before, then you will certainly not be unfamiliar with this classic black and gold collocation. Especially when viewed obliquely, the three rose gold speaker covers with the overall black host do have a visual sense of the same line of Sony black technology products.
In addition to the unity of color matching and design, this special structure also lays the foundation for its sound performance, Bluetooth speakers and traditional multi-channel stereo speakers have a big difference: users tend to be more casual about its placement, but also closer to the living space, such as placed on the living room coffee table, bedroom on the bedside table.
This also makes the sound transmission of Bluetooth speakers, often not like the traditional speakers, with a fixed direction, because the user will often move around non-stop, so you can also see the products currently on the market, but also use the design of upward and downward sound, in order to achieve the effect of sound extending to four sides.
However, such a design, although the sound can "cover" the room, it is easy to scatter the sound waves everywhere, resulting in a decrease in cohesion, reflected in the human ear, that is, the sense of positioning and analytical performance in the sound has obviously lost, which is why many people are saying that smart speakers can only "listen to a sound" one of the reasons.
A loudspeaker, the sound of which filled the house
Although the Sony SRS-RA5000 also wants to achieve a 360° extension of sound, it divides the area receiving sound into three 120° sectors, and presents it with separate speakers in the sound band with high information density such as intermediate frequency and high frequency. The resulting improvement is also very obvious, and the sound in different directions will also have a certain cohesion, and it will not cause the loss of information in the sound because of the sound to all sides.
Although the Sony SRS-RA5000 also wants to achieve a 360° extension of sound, it draws on the design idea of home theater system, dividing the area receiving sound into three 120° sectors, and presenting it with separate speakers in the sound band with high information density such as intermediate frequency and high frequency.
There are a total of 7 speakers in the speaker: 3 at the top, 3 in the middle, plus a 70mm low-frequency speaker at the bottom, the resulting improvement is also very obvious, first of all, the physical structure of multi-speaker + crossover processing can achieve a 6.1-channel surround sound experience, in addition, the sound in different directions will also have a certain cohesion, and it will not cause the loss of information in the sound because of the sound to the four sides.
After listening to this product for a while, the author also suddenly remembered a fable story, in which the scene is very close to its sound experience. The rich man let his son fill the house with something, the best solution to this problem is to light a candle to fill the house with light, and the sound of this product is that the music fills the house, except that some of the sound is sent directly to the ear, more sound enters the ear from different directions through dispersion and refraction, as if the room is filled with sound.
As a Hi-Res level speaker product, for those who pursue high quality enthusiasts, Sony SRS-RA5000 also retains a 3.5mm interface, which can access the audio source, and it also supports the WIFI network playback function, which can also achieve large bandwidth lossless music information transmission through the QQ music QQ play function.
In addition, in the audio algorithm, Sony SRS-RA5000 is also equipped with an advanced version of S-Master HX full digital amplifier technology and digital sound enhancement engine DSEE HX, which can make the sound information processed by the digital chip, get better retouching, in the actual experience, even if it is just an ordinary stereo sound source, it will also be under the blessing of digital technology, so that the sense of sound space is further strengthened, and the details in the sound are more complete.
In terms of control, the product's buttons are concentrated on the left and right sides, all using touch design, getting rid of the soft button feedback feeling of many Bluetooth speakers, and a little more scientific and technological. In addition, the positioning of this product is also relatively pure, and the control aspect mainly focuses on the music scene, including volume adjustment, playback/pause and other functions can be directly controlled through the speaker body.
If you want to further personalize your speaker sound, you can do so through Sony's "MUSIC Center" app, where you can adjust the sound's equalizer, speaker level, auto volume, standby, and more. In terms of Bluetooth decoding, Sony SRS-RA5000 supports two common encodings, AAC and SBC, if it is an audiophile user with high sound requirements, it is recommended to connect via WIFI or wired.
For the Bluetooth speaker placement is more casual use habits, this product also has a black technology "sound calibration", the speaker will send sound waves to all directions, and collect the reflected sound, so as to determine the location environment, the sound dynamic optimization, so do not have to worry about changing the position to cause the problem of hearing degradation, whether placed next to the TV as a 6.1 multi-channel speaker or bedside decompression relaxation tool, it can be competent.
summary
Sony SRS-RA5000 as a flagship speaker product priced at 4499 yuan, the author believes that its design and sound quality performance have reached the top level in the industry, especially the design of multi-speaker structure and appearance integration, it really makes people feel bright.
In terms of use function, this is a pure Bluetooth speaker product, which has neither a built-in voice assistant, nor a gorgeous RGB lamp, a large-capacity battery, but it is to make the core experience of the "sound quality" speaker to the ultimate level, so that the Bluetooth speaker also has an excellent "music immersion". (This article was first published on Titanium Media App Author/Deng Jianyun Photography/Deng Jianyun Editor/Zhong Yi)