Sony Audio Event May 8th (update)

Sony Electronics has put a link to an upcoming event in 10 days time. The video title, "The stage is set, the sound is waiting", does not reveal much. But in the video description has this little tidbit "Wait and see what's coming next". 

Update: as mentioned in the comments and now here, it was a speaker event. See the video here.

What this could be is a mystery. Extracting the video hashtags does not reveal anything specific, except #Creativity and #Entertainment. But these tags could just be general hashtags Sony uses on all of their videos.

Looking at the Sony Electronics tweet, we have the following:

The tweet describes it as something big, so would this even be a set of new earbuds? I do not think so. Could it be a new headset? Again, I do not believe so, since we do not have any new model codes apart from the WF-1000XM5, YY2963. Of course Sony might just unveil something new and then have it appear on the FCC or other certification websites, but this would mean a complete change in Sony's procedures. 

If we look at the photo from the YouTube event, we can see 4 people in a room, enjoying what is most likely music, but none of them are wearing headsets and there is no visible large speaker in the shot. Of course the speaker could be out of the shot or behind the person the right, but that is only speculation. 

Sony has their Xperia announcement a few days later on the 11th of May, so the timing is very odd and peculiar. Whether they are related is unknown. Sony could announce the WF-1000XM5 for example on May 8th and then announce the new Xperia 1V on the 11th and have the Xperia pre-orders ship with the new WF-1000XM5.

There is one more option, while unlikely as an event, Sony's LinkBuds S and WH-1000XM5 just passed through Bluetooth SIG with Isochronous Adaptation Layer support, which is required for the LE audio update.

If anyone has any ideas what this could be, do drop a comment below.

Here is the video for the event.