Chris
I just realized the other day that my brother has a very nice looking 1080p 37" Samsung HDTV, everything about it was great... but the sound quality was crap. I'm in the market for a new TV and was wondering how do you tell whether the sound quality is what you are looking for? When you are looking in the store it is hard to tell which sound is coming from which TV because they are all so close together... Is there a spec that tells you about sound or is there any other trick to figuring out what the sound quality is before you buy the TV? Thanks for your help.
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Pretty much all built-in TV speakers aren't going to be very good. This is because they're placed close together, they can't be very deep (due to the thinness of the TV), there's no subwoofer, and there's only 2 of them (so, no true surround sound if you're watching a DVD/Blu-ray.) This generally means that TV speakers are unable to reproduce deep sounds, and tend to sound "tinny". If you try to turn them up, the sound quickly disintegrates into "noise" as opposed to whatever sounds are supposed to be reproduced.
For a TV, the speaker quality should be about the last thing you're concerned with. Heck, I'd be more concerned with the layout of the remote control more than the speakers. After all, all modern TVs can be connected to an external stereo or surround sound system, and I guarantee you that even the cheapest speaker you could buy for that will be far better than what's wedged inside the TV.
If you're short on space, don't want speakers and wires all over the place, take a look at the new speaker-bar sound systems. These are relatively cheap ($200-700, depending on model), easy to set up, and you only have the bar itself visible. The speaker bar contains both the speakers and the receiver electronics so no need for additional components and complicated setup. You just connect your TV's audio output to the speaker bar, and that's it. It should work with virtually any TV, and most also have additional inputs so you can connect the audio cables from your DVD/blu-ray player, satellite/cable box, game console(s), etc. as well.
Pretty much all built-in TV speakers aren't going to be very good. This is because they're placed close together, they can't be very deep (due to the thinness of the TV), there's no subwoofer, and there's only 2 of them (so, no true surround sound if you're watching a DVD/Blu-ray.) This generally means that TV speakers are unable to reproduce deep sounds, and tend to sound "tinny". If you try to turn them up, the sound quickly disintegrates into "noise" as opposed to whatever sounds are supposed to be reproduced.
For a TV, the speaker quality should be about the last thing you're concerned with. Heck, I'd be more concerned with the layout of the remote control more than the speakers. After all, all modern TVs can be connected to an external stereo or surround sound system, and I guarantee you that even the cheapest speaker you could buy for that will be far better than what's wedged inside the TV.
If you're short on space, don't want speakers and wires all over the place, take a look at the new speaker-bar sound systems. These are relatively cheap ($200-700, depending on model), easy to set up, and you only have the bar itself visible. The speaker bar contains both the speakers and the receiver electronics so no need for additional components and complicated setup. You just connect your TV's audio output to the speaker bar, and that's it. It should work with virtually any TV, and most also have additional inputs so you can connect the audio cables from your DVD/blu-ray player, satellite/cable box, game console(s), etc. as well.
How can I improve the sound quality on my HDTV?
David P
The sound on my new Samsung large screen TV is very bad sometimes. For sports and news programs, it's fine. But when I play back an hour long drama such as CSI or NCIS, it's very difficult to hear what the actors are saying. The same problem holds true when I watch Blu-ry movies on my Samsung Blu-ray player. Sometimes I have the sound on the TV, which I normally watch at about a 20 level, turned all the way up to 100, and then I still can't make out what the actors are saying. The picture quality on my new Samsung plasma TV is drop dead gorgeous, but these sound problems are making my movie experience horrible. Outside of buying a sound bar or a surround sound system, what can I do to better understand the dialogue in movies? Thank you.
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Don't shoot the messenger! Read your owners manual. Samsung tells you these sets aren't built for premium sound. The last set of speakers I replaced in a Samsung, they were $2.97 each. The sound quality sucks on the newer sets. Your forced to "up grade" your sound options ie surround system. Samsung makes a great sound bar. Most customers turn the speakers off and use the sound bar.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&_dynSessConf=-2883938296108739840&id=pcat17071&type=page&st=sound+bar&sc=Global&cp=1&nrp=15&sp=&qp=&list=n&iht=y&usc=All+Categories&ks=960
Don't shoot the messenger! Read your owners manual. Samsung tells you these sets aren't built for premium sound. The last set of speakers I replaced in a Samsung, they were $2.97 each. The sound quality sucks on the newer sets. Your forced to "up grade" your sound options ie surround system. Samsung makes a great sound bar. Most customers turn the speakers off and use the sound bar.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&_dynSessConf=-2883938296108739840&id=pcat17071&type=page&st=sound+bar&sc=Global&cp=1&nrp=15&sp=&qp=&list=n&iht=y&usc=All+Categories&ks=960
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