From Ratings.com
The A95L may be the best TV ever. Two reviews compared the A95L to the Sony BVM-HX310 $30,000 Professional Broadcast Monitor. “ The A95L often got uncannily close to this pro display.” “The A95L might be the next best thing to [the BVM-HX310].”
BUT, the 31" BVM-HX310 can reproduce a consistent 1000 nits across the whole screen indefinitely; the A95L can not.
This was clearly a demo put on by Sony for reviewers. Besides the BVM-HX310, the demo also had the A95K, Samsung 95C and LG G3. Except for noting that the Sony L was much brighter than the K, the reviewers ignored the Samsung and LG. I guess they assumed the comparison with the BVM-HX310 was enough.
In 10/11 Sound & Vision, in a brief test, the the A95L beat the Samsung 95C and LG G3 for HDR and SDR.
I recently installed an X95L in a friend’s house in a bright room (calibrated to rting’s settings), and the contrast looked fine to me and it was bright.
To the poster: wondering between the 85X95L and the 77A95L notwithstanding the accolades for the A95L, given my experience with the X95L in a bright room, and the 85", I’d go with the X85L.
I have an X95k. I would love to get an A95L. But because of the peculiarities of Sony’s dealer agreements, my (high end) dealer can get EVERY Sony TV EXCEPT the A95L, and that is not because of short supply. That’s just the way it is.