Sony’s five-star TA-AN1000 residence cinema amplifier is again all the way down to £849 as a part of the Amazon Prime Large Deal Days gross sales, the bottom value it has been since launch. It is not the primary time that we have seen it drop this low as Richer Sounds featured it at that value in August this yr, nevertheless, Amazon takes the gauntlet for the perfect value proper now.
House cinema offers aren’t ample this Prime Day, however there are many good choices; that being stated this could be the perfect AVR deal on the market proper now, as it can save you £150 on top-of-the-line AV amps that we have examined in fairly a while.
Sony’s wonderful return to the AV amplifier recreation comes within the type of the TA-AN1000, a religious successor of kinds to the STR-DN1080, one other five-star amplifier that went seven years and not using a successor. That streak ended earlier this yr when Sony launched the TA-AN1000, and we had been instantly enamoured.
With Dolby Atmos and DTS:X help throughout its 11 channels of amplification, you’ll be able to energy a 5.1.2 or 7.1 configuration primarily based on if whether or not you propose on utilizing peak channels or encompass again audio system. Sony has additionally geared up this amplifier with a superb suite of wi-fi connectivity choices together with Bluetooth, Spotify Join, Apple AirPlay 2, Chromecast inbuilt and Works With Sonos help.
Sound efficiency is, in fact, a very powerful facet relating to any AV amplifier, and fortunately the Sony excels. Punchy, detailed, exact and dynamic sound emanates from the Sony, leading to textured and insightful dialogue and snappy, guttural and impactful explosions – this amplifier gives masterful dynamics.
It is also pleasingly energetic and fascinating, heightening moments of pressure in movies and providing the mandatory timing when taking part in music; attempt as we’d (and belief us we tried) we merely could not catch the Sony out throughout our testing course of.
There are additionally loads of image options on provide with the TA-AN1000, with a complete of six HDMI inputs, all technically labelled as HDMI 2.1, however solely two of them truly help 4K/120Hz or 8K/60Hz. All of them help VRR and ALLM, nevertheless, which means avid gamers ought to be well-serviced regardless. This amplifier additionally helps HDR within the HDR10, Dolby Imaginative and prescient and HLG codecs, however not HDR10+.
As Prime Day offers go, this Sony TA-AN1000 sale is one among our favourites up to now, and whereas we’re at all times looking out for extra residence cinema offers, we’re assured that this provide shall be onerous to beat.
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