Anyone got any opinions about the sound quality of built in speakers on a 26" lcd tv? 2 x 10 watts seems to be the norm. Is it significantly worse than a CRT? If so, is there any way to run external speakers that can be controlled with the tv remote? TIA
Our main TV source is the freeview box/PVR, which sends the sound to the main stereo. Volume can be controlled either via the freeview box or the main amp. Beats any internal TV speakers by miles. I think I can do the same with the DVD player, though don't try that nearly so often.
I realise that doesn't answer your question exactly, but thought it may give you different ideas :-)
Yes, thanks. Interesting that your freeview remote effectively controls the tv volume. Does this mean that an amplified speaker can be controlled by the tv remote? With two volume controls how would you know which levels to set? Trial and error?
Stuart Noble formulated the question :
Sound from modern flat screen TV's is dire, in part due to them having no side depth and the box being not much bigger than the screen size.
If the set has outputs for external speakers, then buy some. Failing that, feed the L+R low level outputs to a stereo system. Even better would be even a cheap Home Cinema system. Mine includes a DVD + radio. I do though find on live studio feeds that I can hear noises from outside the studios, like passing cars with their stereos on full blast.
Stuart Noble was thinking very hard :
You can buy programable remotes and mix the features of two systems so it controls TV and stereo (for volume only) within the same control set.
In message , Stuart Noble writes
Asking the bleedingly obvious question - do you have speaker outputs on the TV?
Every modern TV I've come across does have somewhere
In message , Harry Bloomfield writes
You could also buy an expensive Logitech Harmony One (£125) remote and then drop one of the surround sound speakers on the display
BUGGER, BUGGER, BUGGER !!!
yes, its inevitable. But be grateful for progress.... Had a blast from a 1950s tv a few years back, and christ was it bad. Very little cone travel, stiff paper suspension and probably valve bias way off.
If modern TVs used the rear plastic case cover as a flat panel speaker for lowish frequencies they'd do better.
You could connect some vaguely decent speakers to the internal speaker connections. Any ok quality small bookshelf stereo speakers of freecycle should do, eg celestion etc. The other option is to bypass the tv sound amp/speakers entirely and connect something mildly decent to your decoder box.
NT
IMHO no TV ever made has speakers which do justice to the transmitted sound. External ones are a better bet. Decent ones will also have rather longer a life than the TV. Better sets should have adequate power amps to drive reasonably efficient ones.
405 line TVs had AM sound with poorly designed IF strips limiting the HF even more than the transmissions. Although very early ones made some attempts to get it right.
Many don't have *speaker* outputs - although I'd expect a decent one to have them. Pretty well all have line outputs, though.
Yes indeed - and this appears to be a problem to the OP, because the set's remote doesn't control the volume (or mute) the line output. Therefore, if you feed the line out into (say) a hi-fi system, you need a separate means of controlling the volume.
I guess this is something which most of us learn to live with. When watching - for example - the last night of the proms, I mute the TV sound and control the volume with my hi-fi remote - but this does, of course, require *two* remotes.
Oh I donno my 1985 vintage Panasonic Prism A1 had pretty good sound. Being at 26" 4:3 there is loads of room in the box for proper enclosed speaker cabinets. IIRC there is a 1" tweeter and 4 or 5" main driver. Fair bit of umph (for a telly) available as well 25W RMS? This set was bought on the basis of having good sound mind.
Pity it's stopped wanting to play, I suspect a diode in the PSU. At least there is a large diode with a brown coat and scorched PCB...
I've not listened in anger to modern sets other than the cheap stuff you find in hotels and they really are dire. 3" speaker mounted directly on the flexible and rattley external cabinet and no rear enclosure.
I haven't got the tv yet but the one I'm looking at (Panasonic TX-26LXD8)has
I'm basically quite happy with the sound from my CRT set but the output isn't specified in the manual. I'm more interested in hearing what people say in American movies than music reproduction, "The Wire" being a prime example. Am I right in thinking that a pair of amplified speakers could be set to a mid range volume and the tv remote used to make fine adjustment? That way I wouldn't need the extra remote. I'm still not clear whether the audio out would drive, say, a pair of 10 watt passive speakers and, if so, would they be any improvement over the
2 x 10w built in speakers.
With TVs there is typically a headphone socket that mutes the interna; speakers. i run a cable from that into the HiFi amplifier. the TV remote continues to control the volume.
Robert
Surely the 405 line TVs used FM for the sound with AM for the spot brightness modulation.
Robert
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 05:43:38 -0700 (PDT), RobertL had this to say:
No - in the UK the 405-line system used AM sound.
625 certainly did that, not sure about 405 though, Might well have been AM.
he's right
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