I've found that voices on flat screen TVs tend to be too quiet, and action sequences tend to be too loud. Do soundbars help even out these extremes?
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I am not a techie by any means! I purchased the LG Smart TV & very happy with the picture..come to find out, the new TV's are thin, the speakers are small & in the back. For my purpose this inexpensive sound bar is perfect. It isn't by any means a high end sound bar.. To answer your inquiry, I can lower or raise the sound to suit the chanel I am watching. I am very happy with it. Hope this helps.
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Yes they do. Speakers on flat screens are located on the back of the tv facing the wall. This makes the highs (voices) sound muffled and the lows (Action scenes) echo off the wall making them over riding the voices. A sound bar was designed to correct this. I use to be a audio/video technician in California and I always used LG for their quality and price. I made a mistake to buy a Vizio tv for the family room but on my masterbed LG tv the picture is so much cleaner so I spent a lot of time in the bedroom. *For best sound on sound bar use a digital cable and go into settings on tv and turn tv speakers OFF and digital out ON......
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Yes they do. Speakers on flat screens are located on the back of the tv facing the wall. This makes the highs (voices) sound muffled and the lows (Action scenes) echo off the wall making them over riding the voices. A sound bar was designed to correct this. I use to be a audio/video technician in California and I always used LG for their quality and price. I made a mistake to buy a Vizio tv for the family room but on my masterbed LG tv the picture is so much cleaner so I spent a lot of time in the bedroom.*For best sound on sound bar use a digital cable and go into settings on tv and turn tv speakers OFF and digital out ON...... Yes they do. Speakers on flat screens are located on the back of the tv facing the wall. This makes the highs (voices) sound muffled and the lows (Action scenes) echo off the wall making them over riding the voices. A sound bar was designed to correct this. I use to be a audio/video technician in California and I always used LG for their quality and price. I made a mistake to buy a Vizio tv for the family room but on my masterbed LG tv the picture is so much cleaner so I spent a lot of time in the bedroom.*For best sound on sound bar use a digital cable and go into settings on... » Read More Yes they do. Speakers on flat screens are located on the back of the tv facing the wall. This makes the highs (voices) sound muffled and the lows (Action scenes) echo off the wall making them over riding the voices. A sound bar was designed to correct this. I use to be a audio/video technician in California and I always used LG for their quality and price. I made a mistake to buy a Vizio tv for the family room but on my masterbed LG tv the picture is so much cleaner so I spent a lot of time in the bedroom.*For best sound on sound bar use a digital cable and go into settings on tv and turn tv speakers OFF and digital out ON...... « Show Less
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Absoultely! I tried using only the built-in speakers in the television itself, but they weren't loud enough to hear and sounded distorted at high volume levels. I purchased oCosmo's sound bar and connected it to the television. The sound is much better and volume is more than adequate.
832312
I would highly reccomend a subwoofer. It adds that extra quality of sound. While my soundbar has subwoofer in it , it doesnt compare to a subwoofer added. Go for it!
1129821
The TV sound is OK but the sound bar makes theatre like sound in the room. You can really tell the difference. As far as it having to be a 'smart sound bar' - the TV seems to be able to do everything the soundbar can do.
1684549
I don't know I have a pair of olk audio 40 moniters and a subwoofer .I have never played around with a soundbar.
360968
Yes, it helps a lot. DE enabled at normal volume works great. Much better than default speakers on the TV.
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It depends on what input jacks you have on your TV - as I recall, this soundbar had both audio L/R (the red and white tipped cables) and a digital connecton (called TOSLink). If you use the TOSLink connection, you'll get better sound quality yet you'll need to buy the TOSLink cable separately. I was never able to get the TOSLink connection to work on mine (I bought the soundbar for my elderly father who had difficulty hearing the TV) so I ended up using the Audio L/R connection.
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I owned the playbar about 9 months before buying the sub. Stand alone playbar sounds good with the lows but very good with higher frequencies. IMO, adding a sub brings the low frequency to a very good level as well. Surprisingly I notice the improved lows more with movies / TV than music.
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I think it depends on where and how you plan on using the TV. I have a medium sized living room approximately 400-450 square feet of space, and I do not have a sound bar. The sound from the integrated speakers is loud enough and clear enough for me. I play video games and watch a lot of blu ray movies and I haven't had any desire to get a sound bar yet.
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No the size of the sound bar is irrelevant what counts is the quality of the sound. My HD TV is a 55 works just great. Go for it!
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If you are connected to a cable box, there should be an optical connection there. Once connected, you should lower the volume on the TV to zero so sound will only come from the soundbar.
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to me sound is no worse than other tv"s. i just wonder how you get a sound bar to work with this tv?
982038
You can adjust the sound effect to clear voice(clrvoice is what shows) or loudness. Not much you can do with the soundbar.
971093
Not at all. I have a big room with high ceilings and this soundbar fills the room with deep sounds.
1373496
We don't seem to be having any lip sync issues, and we use a soundbar for audio when watching movies. Otherwise, we just use the TV speakers.
994590
Sound is seldom good on a flatscreen, but honestly, I am not sure I tested much for that as I never planned to use theTV's sound. I have since returrned this item. More a Tv that a monitor. Being a ViewSonic confused me bad.
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The Panasonic surround sound home theater is much more powerful then the sound bar. You would have to run the surround sound at a lower volume in order to hear the sound bar. Plus it looks like the sound bar and surround system are comparable in quality, so you will get more sound, but it will be equal, not better.