Sony Brings Out 5.1 Home Theater Sound System With Golf Ball-Sized Speakers

Post by **froggyboy604** » Fri May 23, 2008 4:01 am

Demonstrating that fab things come in small packages is this Sony lay-dee, who's proffering one of the five golf ball-sized speakers of the HT-IS100 home theater sound system for your loving eyes to inspect. It's a 5.1-channel, three-HDMI input system and will be released in Japan on July 15 at a cost of around $870. Full details and a couple more pics below.

The small-fry speakers come with a subwoofer/amp with built-in 32-bit S-Master digital amplifier. Total output is 45W x 5 channels, with 100W x 2 from the sub. Supported audio formats include Dolby Digital and DTS, Dolby Pro Logic II, MPEG-2 AAC and linear PCM, as well as Standard, Multi, and various movie and sounds modes.

And if any of you are itching to make a joke about Ping-Pong balls, JUST DON'T, okay? [Impress]

Source:: http://gizmodo.com/392325/sony-brings-o ... d-speakers

Kind of expensive. I guest it be cool if you live in a small house. Those speakers don't look very manly. It be weird if some uber Macho guy bought these to put in his living room.

Post by **SetoTK** » Sat May 24, 2008 2:53 pm

I think they look cool, and would be good to run off batteries with a small wifi receiver so you can stream music to speakers all around the place, or use a 'followme' system where the speakers get switched on/off when you reach a certain point

Well i think they cool and good output, though sound quality would still be a concern as it's sony

hookyboysb · Post by **hookyboysb** » Sat May 24, 2008 8:08 pm

They look nice.

Post by **froggyboy604** » Sun May 25, 2008 9:24 am

What I don't get is why the sub woofer is so big while the speakers are so small.

hookyboysb · Post by **hookyboysb** » Mon May 26, 2008 6:14 am

That's a little weird...