Sony Receivers

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 6 Sony amplifiers in our database. Below you can find the list with their main specs and links to their review pages.

Sony Home Theater Receiver

Model	Watts RMS (8Ω)	Amp Class	DAC	Phono
Sony ES STR-AZ1000ES	70 watts	AB	-	No
Sony ES STR-AZ3000ES	110 watts	AB	-	No
Sony ES STR-AZ5000ES	120 watts	AB	-	No
Sony ES STR-AZ7000ES	140 watts	AB	-	No
Sony STR-AN1000	100 watts	AB	-	No
Sony STR-DH590	90 watts	AB	-	No

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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