Our Overall Score:
9.3/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our SONY HT-ST5000 7.1.2 Wireless Sound Bar review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if SONY HT-ST5000 7.1.2 Wireless Sound Bar is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the Home cinema systems and sound bars category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £1199
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like SONY HT-ST5000 7.1.2 Wireless Sound Bar. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, Sony or alternative products in the Home cinema systems and sound bars category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of SONY HT-ST5000 7.1.2 Wireless Sound Bar
SONY HT-ST5000 7.1.2 Wireless Sound Bar scores 9.7/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with Home cinema systems and sound bars. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of SONY HT-ST5000 7.1.2 Wireless Sound Bar, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for SONY HT-ST5000 7.1.2 Wireless Sound Bar and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for Home cinema systems and sound bars, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any Home cinema systems and sound bars? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
SONY HT-ST5000 7.1.2 Wireless Sound Bar scores 9.9/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the Home cinema systems and sound bars category was £9999.00, whilst the cheapest we found was £24.99 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of SONY HT-ST5000 7.1.2 Wireless Sound Bar down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the Home cinema systems and sound bars category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the Home cinema systems and sound bars category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for SONY HT-ST5000 7.1.2 Wireless Sound Bar.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the Home cinema systems and sound bars category. This was £460.46 from the 108 products we found in that category. So SONY HT-ST5000 7.1.2 Wireless Sound Bar actually comes in above average at £1199.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £9999.00 and the least expensive, which was £24.99. In total we found that of the 108, 3 were more expensive and 104 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as SONY HT-ST5000 7.1.2 Wireless Sound Bar.
Prices of products from Sony
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, Sony. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from Sony, which was £453.54 of the 318 products we found. So SONY HT-ST5000 7.1.2 Wireless Sound Bar price is above average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from Sony was £6.99 with the most expensive coming in at £9999.00.
Prices of products from Sony and in the Home cinema systems and sound bars category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from Sony that sit specifically within the Home cinema systems and sound bars category.
For this we found that the average price was £339.13, making SONY HT-ST5000 7.1.2 Wireless Sound Bar at £1199 actually above average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £1199.00 with the lowest priced item being £99.99. In total there were 0 items that were more expensive and 14 that was less expensive.
Reviews of SONY HT-ST5000 7.1.2 Wireless Sound Bar
SONY HT-ST5000 7.1.2 Wireless Sound Bar scores 8.3/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good SONY HT-ST5000 7.1.2 Wireless Sound Bar is.
Overall score
SONY HT-ST5000 7.1.2 Wireless Sound Bar scores 9.3/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from Sony so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for SONY HT-ST5000 7.1.2 Wireless Sound Bar by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: SONY HT-ST5000 7.1.2 Wireless Sound Bar
- Brand: Sony
- Model Number: HTST5000
- Dolby Atmos: 3D sound from 9 speakersSupports High-Resolution AudioWireless subwooferCompatible with Sony multi-roomBluetooth / NFC
- EAN: 4548736041509
- Description: Top features:- Exceptional atmospheric sound with Dolby Atmos and 7.1ch S-Force PRO Front Surround- S-master HX and DSEE HX enhance sound for premium-grade audio- Enjoy more music, podcasts and radio with Chromecast and Spotify Connect- Multi-room music and Bluetooth streaming- Connect with your other devices easily with multiple portsDolby AtmosHear sounds from around and above as Dolby Atmos sweeps you up in the atmosphere of movies, music and your favourite shows. It creates a 3D audio space where sounds are positioned to create stunning realism. Feel like you’re at the movies as cars rush past, spaceships soar overhead and singers pitch to the back of a stadium.The Sony HT-ST5000 7.2.1 Wireless Sound Bar envelops you in sound with its nine speakers, including two upfiring speaker channels. S-Force Pro and Digital Signal Processing ensure immersive detail and realism.S-master HX and DSEE HXUse your HTST5000 Sound Bar for music and gaming as well as movies. Music is enhanced to near-high definition levels with DSEE HX to upscale lower-res files like MP3 for true listening bliss.Everything sounds cleaner and clearer with an S-Master HF digital to reduce distortion, so you can get lost in your entertainment at high volumes without affecting sound quality.Chromecast and Spotify ConnectTap the Cast button and start streaming music, podcasts and radio from your smartphone, tablet or laptop to the ST5000. It’s fitted with Chromecast, giving you access to content from more than 100+ audio apps like Google Play Music and more.With Spotify Connect you can play Spotify playlists in high quality through the sound bar – use the Spotify app as a remote so you’re always in control of how you want to listen. Instantly pick up where you left off on another device by pressing the dedicated Music Service button.Multi-room musicMusic isn’t limited to the living room with the Sony HT ST5000. It’s got smart sound technology, so you can wirelessly connect with compatible Sony multi-room speakers you have around the house (each sold separately). Use the SongPal app to stream audio to every room, making parties livelier and giving you more ways to stay entertained when you’re moving around your home.Bluetooth with LDAC sound enhancement makes it easy to stream music from your smart devices – spontaneous track and playlist sharing in high quality is just a few taps away.Connect with your other devicesBuild your ideal home cinema setup by connecting Blu-ray players, set top boxes and games consoles to the three HDCP 2.2-compatible HDMI inputs. An HDMI ARC output allows for premium sound and video quality, and you’ve got optical SPDIF and analogue connections for hooking up more devices. Plug in a USB stick to enjoy songs you have stored in high quality.
- Product ID: 7436077309
