I saw the sony 65A1 on display sa Glorietta. Looks very good and sounds far better than the usual TV sound nowadays
Last Saturday (July 29, 2017), I had a brief look at this new Sony OLED panel at Anson's where a 55-incher was on display with this price tag (and may possibly be priced lower at the time of this posting):
The display quality is noticeably gorgeous, and it is reported that LG is the source of Sony's OLED line up (although Sony never confirms), with Sony's X1 Extreme processor plus the software running on it as a unique differentiator from LG's and Panasonic's OLED models.
The other thing I noticed is the sound. Vastly improved! Soundstage? Check. Treble response? Check. Bass response? Check. In fact, I first wondered: where are the frickin' speakers? The "visible" source is that flat and broad stand at the back of the panel. This is where the low frequencies come from. For the higher frequencies, the sound emanates from the glass panel itself. Sony calls this technology "
Acoustic Surface."
Surprisingly, when I asked the Sony staff to turn up the volume loud enough, the sound vibration from the glass panel didn't introduce jitter or interference into the picture. The sound vibration is produced by four (4) “actuators” on the back of the panel itself, two on the left side and two on the right. Pretty impressive.
