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[Martin Dew]

Sony has introduced the SRS-RA5000 ($699.99) and SRS-RA3000 ($299.99) wireless speakers which promise to offer “premium, at-home listening experiences.” Both include Sony’s spatial sound technologies, capable of creating “room-filling” and immersive sound. Sony also says that 360 Reality Audio content can be streamed from Amazon Music HD on the new speakers using Alexa Cast from April 6th. Owners in the US and Canada will be able to stream “object-based” audio if they have subscribed to Amazon Music HD, with its 70 million tracks in High Definition (HD), five million songs in Ultra HD, and catalogue of 3D Audio (including 360 Reality Audio content).
“We developed Amazon Music HD to make it as easy as possible for music fans to stream high-quality and immersive audio,” said Andre Stapleton, Global Head...

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[Todd Erwin]

Sony has introduced the SRS-RA5000 ($699.99) and SRS-RA3000 ($299.99) wireless speakers which promise to offer “premium, at-home listening experiences.” Both include Sony’s spatial sound technologies, capable of creating “room-filling” and immersive sound. Sony also says that 360 Reality Audio content can be streamed from Amazon Music HD on the new speakers using Alexa Cast from April 6th. Owners in the US and Canada will be able to stream “object-based” audio if they have subscribed to Amazon Music HD, with its 70 million tracks in High Definition (HD), five million songs in Ultra HD, and catalogue of 3D Audio (including 360 Reality Audio content).

I find it very hard to believe that a single speaker can provide "spatial" sound like Atmos, but am happy to hear that now there are now three speakers that support Amazon's 3D Audio content (the first being the Echo Studio).

That Sony speaker looks like a mannequin torso.