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5 Reviews for Sony DAVIS10 - Ultra Compact 5.1 Channel DVD Home Cinema System
Don't expect too much HiFi or too many thrills - 02 Aug 2008
0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
The reason I bought this peice of kit is because we have a big, flat TV and it does not have great sound. Actually most of the new TVs don't have great sound for the simple reason that the speakers are facing backwards. What I was looking for was a system that would deliver very clear sound and not upset my wife with large speakers, and this system does exactly that. Add to that that the price here is very reasonable and I feel I got value for money too. But...
There will be people out there who are interested in whether this thing can deliver HiFi quality sound. The review of this system in the Gramophone and in other mags certainly suggest it can, but as far as I am concerned that really isn't so. The sound is "cold", which is no problem if you like that kind of sound, but it is also thin. As a result of the thinness the sense of scale is poor and worse still there is no well defined sound stage - even in the special audio mode - and this is critical to good HiFi. Instead you get a very clear, but rather nondirectional sound with no real guts or substance. The system WILL go right down to those low bass notes and that is obviously desirable. Also when the system is required to go low it remains musical and does not descend into toneless thuds - but it never becomes exciting and engaging, despite this ability.
So, as a HiFi system this is not that good. So, is it any good as a Home Cinema system? In my opinion its no better than "good enough". With home cinema you forget all your concerns about HiFi and you start looking for thrills - and as far as I am concerned this unit does not deliver much of that. It is competent, and it is never unpleasant to listen to, in fact I woul go so far as to say it is unobtrusive, but it never has your heart racing. You do get 5.1 surround sounds - always depending on how well mixed the DVD was in the first place of course - but they will never have you out of your seat.
So its not HiFi, and its not a thrill-ride Cinema system. So what is this thing really good for? It is good for what I said in pargraph one. It is a very significant improvment over flat-TV sound at a very acceptable price AND if you can hide the large Sub well enough and you conceal all the wires well enough, you should avoid any marital stress. That's about it.
Great... - 30 Jun 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
I bought this to upgrade my 6 year old Sony HT-BE1 system, and was not disapointed. The first thing that came to mind was how could speakers so small (literally the size of golf balls) give enough sound, but it does! i have a fairly spacious room and it more than suffices, what i reallly like about this system is the big bastard bass box that comes with it, room literally shakes at some points (would recommend watching beowulf)
If like me you are a bit confused as to what ports and connections it has, well here it is, the little black reciver (the smallest of the boxes) has a Co-axial port,HDMI port (as it is also a dvd player) analogue audio ports (the red and white ones) and a DM Port that i dont use but u can stream music via bluetooth etc.
It has built in radio for AM/FM frequencies, TV (if u wanted to hook up your tv to the surround sound) basically any sort of input device it will play it. Now in saying that it is a dvd player also which apparently upscales your dvd's to 1080i, i DONT use this dvd player i have a blu ray player connected to it so i cant comment on that.
Overall im delighted with the purchase, the reason i give it 4 stars as opposed to 5 is that i like to listen to my music at time extremely loud and loud as it may be it just is not as LOUD as i would like.
Amazing value for money! - 24 Jun 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
Use the supplied microphone for auto-setup and it does all the work for you, setting speaker levels automatically.
The speakers are so small that they're barely noticable. I've stuck the rear speakers to the wall with blu-tack, that's how small and light they are! The sound is smooth, powerful and room-filling. Those who complain about a lack of oomph must have not set it up right. To put this into perspective, my home cinema back home is a Denon/B&W/Klipsch setup costing over 2000 pounds. Obviously it's in a whole different league but I'm still enjoying the Sony tremendously. If you want a small and discreet home cinema and your living room is not ridiculously large, then you cannot go wrong with this.
As another reviewer mentioned, the sub is surprisingly big, about the size of a tower PC. It's quite narrow, so I've put it behind the TV. Build quality of the speakers is excellent (metal body), but the main unit is plasticky - when installing it I knocked it against one of the glass shelves and a piece of it chipped off!!!
The DVD player is fine, but the upscaling made little difference that I could see. For real upscaling you'll have to buy a serious standalone DVD player from Denon or Yamaha.
My only real complaint is a lack of inputs. There's and optical and coaxial digital input, and that's it. The coaxial is labelled "SAT/CABLE" The analog phono input is shared with the optical as "TV", so you can't use both. If you connect devices to both and they are both switched on then the optical takes priority.
Trained Ears - 13 May 2008
1 out of 8 found this review helpful.
Having spent the last twelve years 'training' my ears, I would disagree with the comments made by Little Big Sound.
I feel that this system does not give the spacial sound that I would have expected to find in a sub-£400 system. Indeed the soundstage and imagery present whilst watching 'Finding Nemo' was decidely lacking compared to my Alba SPKRKIT559 system. Mind you, I am told that The Alba system is used by none other than George Spielberg and Steven Lucas in their home cinema systems, so may be cruel to compare the two.
I hope you find this review helpful, especially little big sound.
Excellent System - 14 Jan 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful.
Wanted to match my new Sony W3000 40' with another nice new piece of kit so decided to go for the DAV-IS10. Set up was easy and the speakers are really just incrediable to look at nevermind the sound that comes out of them. Even if you read all the reviews on this system and all of them telling you how small these speakers are, you will still be gobsmacked at how tiny these things really are. As usual, Sony are pretty generous with the speaker cable for all of the speakers and to connect them to the sub is as easy as 1-2-3. The control unit is lovely to look at and use. I agree with one of the other reviews about the volume control having to be above at least halfway to get any sort of decent sound out of the system. I thought it was a fault with mine at first but I suppose it must have something to do with power delivery to speakers etc. I have my volume usuallly set at at least 50 but the higher the better I suppose if your neighbours (and g/friend...) don't mind! The only thing that took me by suprise (and it shouldn't have if I had read the dimensions correctly) was the size of the sub. It is a big boy! Great system though and I'm glad I bought it&would definitely recommend it with a nice HDTV. Got it for under £350 aswell!! I done some serious research on the internet first:)