Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42449 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Sony
• Model: DAVDZ860W.CEK
• Released on: 2008-04-30

Manufacturer's Description
Stylish home theatre system featuring high sound quality and four high value tall speakers with the flexibility of rear wireless speakers

Customer Reviews

Buy this system!
This is the best system I've heard at this price.
The auto setup was childs play and it sounds awesome. The volume is LOUD and sounds like a quality piece of gear, the volume almost doubles in the last few digits up to an undistorted max at which point you need to scream at the person next to you to be heard. The bass is amazing for such a small unit - which IS most definately powered, and it coped with even the most demanding 'Dream Theater' tracks thrown at it.
I nearly bought a completely different system after reading the other two reviews here, but they seem to imagine speakers can produce sound by themselves; you have to run the sound cables to them and if they were individually powered you would have to run the power to them, where is the problem? At least there are no trailing wires from the TV to the back of the room. The S-Air system will also allow additional speakers to be placed around the house!

Not impressed
I evaluated multiple options and then settled for DZ860W. I must say that I am not at happy with this system. Here are things which I don't like
- There is hardly any bass (sub-woofer is passive thus does not generate enough depth).
- Movies is ok, but music is really flat. If you want to use this for listening music then please look some where else. During movies many times it was not able to handle the range.
- There are hardly any options to control the quality of sound. Imagine a 400 quid sound system with no sound controls.
- Most of the good connection option are only available on the Digital media port and guess what it is an optional extra.
- Remote is a bit cluttered with many useless keys.
- It cannot play many regular music format, so please check the list of media files it can play before buying this.

All in all, if you are looking for something which can give you good performance for movies and music, then please do not take this system. For movies take this only if you have exhausted other option.

I got the set two days back and I am planning to return it back, the only problem is that this system have more then 100 parts which needs to be dismantled and repacked (and that will be a nightmare).

Regards

Tushar

"Wireless"
Just bought this item from amazon for the wireless rear speaker capability.When i opened the box and started to set up i found the s-air unit.Wondering what this was for i checked the manual to find out that to use the wireless speakers you must insert a card into the back of the amplifier,the s-air unit must also have a card inserted and plugged into a power supply.Then you must run cable from s-air unit to the rear speakers therfore not wireless.Also there is no hdmi in port just one out port for connection to your tv.