tv SOUND

I only use my TV to display a picture, sound is provided by a separate amp to Aviano 1 speakers.

It depends on what depth you want your TV to be. My TV is 20mm front screen to the back and around 5x lighter than the previous (smaller) flat screen TV that it replaced.

Thinner TVs mean more boxes in the shipping container.

I too have an (surround sound) AV amp with a separate speakers.

The available space in a modern flat screen is just too small to produce a decent speaker enclosure... So you can't get a decent sized driver in there. It is fair to say that there is a wide range of audio quality - but it is a range that starts at abysmal and only goes up to "fairly poor" IMHO.

Sound bars can work better given much more air volume to play with - but even those are fairly compromised. They will at least match what would you would have got out of a large high end CRT of its day.

If you want decent sound on then cheap, get a midrange set of bluetooth headphones, and link them to the TV.

In message snipped-for-privacy@news.individual.net>, Jeff Gaines snipped-for-privacy@outlook.com writes

I use a set of Bose blue tooth headphones. A gift, I couldn't afford to buy them!

Means I can enjoy TV when the rest of my family are in bed.

Jim gm4dhj ... snipped-for-privacy@ntlworld.com wrote

There is nowhere to put a decent pair of speakers anymore with thin flat screen TVs

Nope.

Nope.

I have Humax PVR sound output feeding a hi-fi amplifier and stereo speakers sitting below the TV.

Apparently there is a difference.

At 450 watts, you really can hear telly.

HOLY COW.

Just make sure telly has the correct jacks on the back.

Another way to do surround sound, is headphones with a multitude of speakers inside. Some will be equipped with an HRTF transform, to create a more lifelike soundscape.

For computers, years ago, Zalman made some 5.1 headphones, but they were a bit of a bust, because computer audio jacks didn't drive it properly. If a user wanted those to work, there was a separate amplifier box to drive them. The ones you can get now, should be a lot better.

That allows you to enjoy telly the way it was meant to be heard, without bothering others.

But if everyone in the house likes to rock, 450 watts ought to do it.

Paul

Unless you get a very large model, TV sound has always been naff. There are just too many things to rattle and not enough rigidity to make it sound bassy. I run mine through a hi fi using an optical to analogue cheapo Chinese box. Brian

ditto,

but since buying a 2nd hand 2017 Sony Bravia 43 inch which has acceptable sound, I only use the sound output from the HD-FOX-T2 via an amptastic amp on those occasions when I want better sound

I've got an audio out connection from my 32" Sony TV to an audio amplifier feeding two big speakers either side of the TV. That way the sound of anything shown on the TV goes to the speakers, whether live TV (rare), or stuff from one of my two PVRs.

They used to have to put the speaker right at the back of the cabinet so the the magnetism of it didn't deflect the electron beam.

When my last TV failed, I rigged up an old monitor, which we sat on a coffee table, and was a pretty good stop-gap whist I found a new one.

One big advantage was that it had, as standard, audio out, which fed straight to my hi-fi.

Penny-pinching, I presume, means that TVs do not generally have this feature any more.

Chris

They have a headphone output, which serves...

Not always. (I don't get why they're so keen on Bluetooth for sound bars. The sodding things are put right below the TV; just use a *wire*; Bluetooth has latency which has to be compensated to give lip-sync.)

My Sony TV (bought in 2012) has a 3.5mm jack socket which can be configures as a headphone or a line output; if the former, you can decide whether it cuts the TV speakers out; if the latter, you can decide whether the TV volume control changes the level.

I was in a shop today...

Saw a card in teh shop window.

Panasonic 4K 46 inch TV for sale.

TV volume stuck on full

I thought to myself, I can't turn that down.....

I have one "lash up" setup that uses a spare HDMI monitor with a chromecast plugged into it, and a HDMI to audio tap off box that feeds a stereo amp and a set of Warfdale Diamond 220 speakers. That works surprisingly well. Only setup for stereo, but still a decent sound stage.