Sony’s wearable speaker puts Dolby Atmos audio right up to your ears

Sony's wearable speaker puts Dolby Atmos audio right adequate your ears

The Sony SRS-NS7 around a man's neck in the living room.

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Sony is putt Dolby Atmos spatial audio in a new pose – about your neck. It's wholly thanks to the new Sony SRS-NS7 wireless neckband speaker that can stream Dolby Atmos tracks from a attached Bravia XR Telecasting when you pair it with a wireless transmitter.

That sounds like a lot of work to get Dolby Atmos sound – but it's a nice alternative to filling your living room with storey-standing speakers for folks who are chunky on space.

In accession to Dolby Atmos sound from the TV, the SRS-NS7 can pour Sony 360 Reality Sound tracks from Deezer and Tidal from a smartphone. To tune the sound for your ears, Sony is releasing a 360 Attribute Sound Personalizer app that you can use to take a photo of your ears to seduce the sound more immersive.

According to Sony, the article of clothing Dolby Atmos speaker unit has a 12-hour battery life at a regular bulk level and around five hours when you crank information technology up to the scoop level. It's IPX4 water-resistant – which is nice but plausibly non insulated enough to break apart in public. (Please, please don't put on this in national.)

The Sony SRS-NS7 wireless neckband speaker wish be available to purchase soon for $299 (around £220, AU$400) while an additive WLA-NS7 wireless transmitter that connects the speaker system to a Bravia TV can be picked up shortly for $59 (around £44, Gold$80).

Analysis: What's the mass with wearable neckband speakers?

Neckband speakers stimulate long existed or els to traditional over-ear headphones. The latter are unmatched when it comes to critical listening, but the former are certainly Sir Thomas More comfortable to wear for long-dated periods of time.

The trade-off that neckband speakers have always made is that they're usually lacking in the technology department – because, after all, they're limited by Bluetooth's small bandwidth – and that meant that they ne'er really plumbed A good as other types of speakers.

Sony is stressful to exchange that with the SRS-NS7 – only it will require the assistanc of that wireless transmitter if you want to stream Dolby Atmos tracks. Sony has reached bent inform the States that uncomparable comes in the box, and says that a second reciever is sold severally. That said, Atmos content can single be streamed from compatible Bravia TVs.

There are few drawbacks to information technology, however even with those caveats the NS7 seems wish it's an elegant solution for an age-old problem.

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Chip Pino is the Senior Editor of Location Entertainment at TechRadar and covers TVs, headphones, speakers, telecasting games, VR and streaming devices. He's longhand for TechRadar, GamesRadar, Official Xbox Mag, PC Gamer and other outlets over the go decennary, and he has a degree in computer skill he's not using if anyone wants it.