Portable surround-sound system | £499 | View offers whf.cm/SonyHT_AX7
Over our decades of venturing into the more esoteric parts of the hi-fi world, we have come across all sorts of weird and wonderful (and not so wonderful) products. Few if any, though, have caused quite as much head-scratching at What Hi-Fi? towers as the Sony HT-AX7.
The HT-AX7 is small enough to be a portable music speaker, but two discs attached to its top edge suggest something else is going on.
It turns out that those discs can be detached to become separate wireless speakers – so maybe the AX7 is an unusually small soundbar? Except that it doesn’t have any physical source connections or even wi-fi connectivity. Maybe it is an immersive surround sound music player? But Sony itself calls it a portable theatre system. Confused?
