: It includes Sony’s Digital Cinema Auto Calibration (DCAC). You plug in a calibration microphone to automatically measure your room and tailor the speaker volume.

: This highly praised feature allows your connected HDMI devices (like cable boxes) to pass video and audio directly to your TV without needing to turn the actual receiver on.

“hook up was very straightforward and the sound it produces is truly amazing for a unit so smal and inexpensive” Crutchfield Criticism regarding the limitations of accessory speakers: