Sony Mobile ES™ High-Resolution Digital Media Receiver with 10.1″ Touchscreen, Bluetooth, Type-C XAV-9500ES

Meet the XAV-9500ES, the oversized doorway into outstanding audio-visuals in your car. With a 10.1 capacitive HD touchscreen, powerful and dynamic amplification, and both wired and wireless connectivity for your smartphone, it’s going to take some persuading to get you to leave your car once this is in it.

Key Features

Everything in view – Now updated with a 10.1 high-definition LCD panel and optically gapless design, it boasts the best-in-class picture quality, while assuring safer and easier operation than ever.

Gapless Anti-glare Capacitive Touchscreen – Unlike a conventional display, the LCD is bonded directly to the protective glass touch layer with a transparent adhesive. The result is an extremely precise touch experience along with the enhanced contrast and visual performance.

Easy mounting and adjustment – The sturdy and adjustable mount is designed for single DIN installation, to suit a wide variety of vehicles. The four-way adjustment makes it easy to position the oversized display in your perfect spot.

The way artists truly intended – Enjoy the subtle nuances of studio-quality sound with High-Resolution Audio. Passion for music unites every component from signal to speaker, so it feels like the artist is performing right in front of you.

High-Resolution wireless LDAC audio – Enjoy the convenience of Bluetooth wireless audio, and exceptional sound quality thanks to LDAC. Connect compatible devices to stream audio at 96 kHz/24-bit sampling with bitrates up to 3x higher (990 kbps) than conventional Bluetooth.

Engineered for ultimate listening pleasure—ESS digital-to-analogue converter – Experience the same calibre of sound usually reserved for high-end home audio products, thanks to the ESS DAC chip—a premium converter that provides optimum quality, from all your digital music files. With high-performance 32-bit processing and eliminated timing jitter, this D/A converter delivers an unprecedented dynamic range and low harmonic distortion.

Anti-resonance dual-layer chassis – The dual-layer design of the chassis separates analogue and digital circuitry, preventing electro-magnetic interference for uncompromised sound quality.

Choices for optimum performance – Carefully selected components ensures superb quality sound. The dedicated choke coil features powerful bass while filtering unwanted frequencies, for controlled and dynamic audio reproduction. Audiophile-grade capacitors deliver effortless power for clearness and tight bass, while multi-layer polymer capacitors help ensure low overall harmonic distortion and natural sound character.

Sound Customisation – The high-grade 192 kHz/24 bit DSP offers pristine sound processing and time alignment—down to a remarkable 1 cm for each of the six addressable channels (4 speakers + 2 subwoofers via pre-out). A 14-band EQ lets you adjust the overall sound to your music or taste, and each of the six channels features independent 8-band parametric EQ to get optimal performance across different speaker configurations. Together with the 3-zone crossover, you can dial in the perfect match of front, rear and subwoofers.

Apple CarPlay – Easily access the iPhone features you know and love, just by talking to Siri. Music, maps, phone calls and messages are all under your control. Wireless connection available depending on your county or region.

Android Auto™ – Use commands to dictate messages, take phone calls or get help from Google Maps. You can even control music playback just by talking.5 Wireless connection available depending on your smartphone, and country or region.

3-camera trigger inputs – Customers can see the images of up to three connected cameras when they shift the vehicle’s transmission lever to the reverse position or tap the dedicated icons on the home screen. By utilising the supplied trigger wires, each camera image can be switched on and off, or from one to another automatically by detecting the vehicle’s turn signals or sensing compatible signals such as that for a connected front camera.6 An adjustable parking guide is also available for the reverse gear.

HD Graphical User Interface – The 1,280 x 720 HD touchscreen offers an enhanced user interface for safety and ease of use. It features a high-contrast “Mobile ES” colour scheme, as well as customisable wallpaper to suit your vehicle and style.

Mobile ES Series Immerse yourself in excellent in-car entertainment – Engineered ultimate listening pleasure on the road, the Mobile ES Series products bring the very best of your music and connectivity together, for a driving experience like never before.

Features

• Large, 10.1 HD (1280 x 720) capacitive touchscreen
• LDAC™ allows wireless streaming of High-Resolution Audio with exceptional quality
• Single-DIN chassis gives more installation options
• Native 192 kHz/24-bt WAV, FLAC, ALAC audio playback, and DSD file playback via 192 kHz/24-bit PCM conversion
• USB Type-C® for compatible smartphones