topic Re: SONY HT-ZF9 3.1 Wireless Cinematic Sound Bar with Dolby Atmos in Home Cinema, Projectors & Players

SONY HT-ZF9 3.1 Wireless Cinematic Sound Bar with Dolby Atmos

Johnzoid — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 13:16:42 GMT

Hi!

I am looking to buy a Sony HT-ZF9 3.1 soundbar to go with my KD65-AF9 TV; I have a Sony Blue Ray player, a sky Q box and a couple of games machines (Xbox1 & Switch). How do you wire these up to get the best from all? The soundbar only has 2 HDMI inputs...?

Re: SONY HT-ZF9 3.1 Wireless Cinematic Sound Bar with Dolby Atmos

Win_88 — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:51:42 GMT

The recommended connection method would be to use as many of the TV's HDMI ports for your external devices as possible:

Sound bar - HDMI 3 ARC

SkyQ/BD player/ Xbox 1 - HDMI 1/2/4 on TV

Switch - HDMI 1 or 2 (on the Sound bar)

This will leave you with 1 free port on the Sound bar too.

Win_88

Re: SONY HT-ZF9 3.1 Wireless Cinematic Sound Bar with Dolby Atmos

Johnzoid — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 15:12:15 GMT

Thank you Win_88,

Yeah, after I posted the question I realised the HDM3 ARC might be the way to go.

I wondered, though, whether there was any advantage to using the 2 HDMI ports on the soundbar as a priority over the TV HDMI Ports? Audio lip sinking can be a problem and so it would be good to know if anyone had any recommendations?

Thanks again for responding, I will follow that advice...!

John

Re: SONY HT-ZF9 3.1 Wireless Cinematic Sound Bar with Dolby Atmos

LightFoot — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 19:10:23 GMT

Hi @Johnzoid I have Sky Q on 1 and Apple 4K TV on 2. You should use both so you have three Enhanced ports together with HDMI2 on your TV.