Hi-res Audio Part Of Just-Announced Sony Range

SONY ANNOUNCED TODAY an array of products that the company says will “dramatically enhance the way consumers play, watch, listen and create.”
The new range include includes the new Xperia Z1 smartphone, “an entirely new concept in lens-style cameras”, new 4K handycam, a range of outstanding audio products, new and improved Personal 3D viewer and VAIO Fit A, Tap 11 and Tap 21.
Sony’s audio products include the HAP-S1 compact HDD audio player system, the UDA-1 USB DAC amplifier, and the SS-HA1 and SS-HA3 “hi-res compatible” bookshelf speakers. [We’ll talk more about those in a future piece].
The range of 4K TVs is expanded with the new BRAVIA X8500A Series that promises to “deliver superior picture quality with a redefined sound system for a richer and wider range of sound than previously made possible.”
There are a couple of new soundbars, the HT-ST7 and HT-ST3 (“for an immersive home theatre experience”), a new personal 3D viewer, the HMZ-T3, and a Music Video Recorder, the HDR-MV1, that lets you record and instantly share full HD videos with stereo sound.
As well, there are new cameras, handycams and Vaio notebooks.
Watch this space for the individual news stories to follow.