Sony Loudspeakers

Japanese giant founded in 1946 in the ruins of Tokyo. Co-created the compact disc and invented the personal stereo.

Founded: 1946 (founded as Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo; renamed Sony in 1958)
Founders: Masaru Ibuka, Akio Morita
Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan
Manufacturing: Japan and Asia
How to buy: Sold through specialist hi-fi dealers, online retailers and pro-audio dealers
Known for: The Walkman, co-inventing the compact disc, the ES range, professional recording equipment

Currently, we have 5 Sony loudspeakers in our database. Below you can find the list of these speakers with their main specs and links to their review pages.

Sony Passive Bookshelf(1)
Sony Powered Bookshelf(1)
Sony Passive Floor-standing(1)
Sony Passive Center Channel(1)
Sony Powered Subwoofer(1)

Sony Passive Bookshelf Speakers

	Model	Frequency	Sensitivity	Impedance	Woofer
	Sony SS-CS5	53-50k Hz	87 dB	6Ω	1 x 5.25"

Sony Powered Bookshelf Speakers

	Model	Frequency	Watts RMS	Max Depth / Sample Rate	Woofer
	Sony Signature Series SA-Z1	51-100k Hz	212-watt	32-bit/768 Hz	2 x 4"

Sony Passive Floor-standing Speakers

	Model	Frequency	Sensitivity	Impedance	Woofer
	Sony SS-CS3	45-50k Hz	88 dB	6Ω	2 x 5.12"

Sony Passive Center Channel Speakers

	Model	Frequency	Sensitivity	Impedance	Woofer
	Sony SS-CS8	55-25k Hz	86 dB	6Ω	2 x 4"

Sony Powered Subwoofer Speakers

	Model	Frequency	Amp Power	Woofer
	Sony SA-CS9	28-200 Hz	115 watts	1 x 10"

About Sony

Sony was founded in 1946 by Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita in a bombed-out Tokyo department store building. Its two largest contributions to how people listen are the Walkman of 1979, which made music portable and personal, and the compact disc, developed jointly with Philips and launched in 1982 with the CDP-101 - the format that carried recorded music for twenty years. Sony also owns one of the largest recorded-music catalogues in the world, so it sits on both sides of the industry.

Ibuka was the engineer, Morita the commercial mind. Morita insisted on a name that could be pronounced anywhere, which is why a Japanese company took a Latin root.

The Walkman changed the social meaning of listening: music stopped being something a room did together and became something a person did alone in public. Very few consumer products have altered behaviour that fundamentally.

Notable models: TPS-L2 Walkman, CDP-101, SS-AR1, ES series amplifiers, WH-1000X headphones.

Official Sony website

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