Current Events > is there a way to make my NEW TVs sound better? its all tinny this is wack guys!

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it needs more treble.

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https://imgur.com/vk0gSSy
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Wtf is that

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DocileOrangeCup posted...

Wtf is that

Treble
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Given you needed to ask, I'd say a soundbar is probably well suited for you.

Whilst I have a basic 7ch receiver with surround sound speakers around my living room connected via ARC, it's messy, cumbersome, overly complicated, etc... and in hindsight, I probably would've been better with just a soundbar if there was one with sufficient inputs.

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Speakers are a pretty effective way to make sound

Chicken posted...

Treble

Is that a gi joe

gloBal enemy posted...

Given you needed to ask, I'd say a soundbar is probably well suited for you.

Whilst I have a basic 7ch receiver with surround sound speakers around my living room connected via ARC, it's messy, cumbersome, overly complicated, etc... and in hindsight, I probably would've been better with just a soundbar if there was one with sufficient inputs.

Hmmm... I don't think I have the room for surround sound anyway, what are soundbars exactly? Are they just small speakers?
MarthGoomba posted...

Speakers are a pretty effective way to make sound

U sure

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Bumo

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TVs nowadays have terrible speakers due to how compact they are. As mentioned, a soundbar with a built in subwoofer can do the trick. Or two twin tower speakers connected via an amplifier if you really won't supreme sound.
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Try sitting closer to the tv

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Chicken posted...

DocileOrangeCup posted...

Wtf is that

Treble

well ain't that Gospel truth
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DocileOrangeCup posted...

Hmmm... I don't think I have the room for surround sound anyway, what are soundbars exactly? Are they just small speakers?

It's just a speaker which sits above or below your TV, usually quite wide (depending on TV size it'll be nearly as wide as the TV), has multiple speakers inside pointed in different directions, and may have a separate wired or wireless subwoofer. It's essentially all the bits which used to be in a home theatre system (amplifier/receiver, speakers, subwoofer) compressed into just two things connected to your TV with one cable (usually HDMI ARC).

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I bought my parents a soundbar because their TV doesn't let you use headphones and its own speakers at the same time. They don't really care, but that soundbar is slightly outta sync with their TV and it'd drive me crazy. Something to watch out for, TC.
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pegusus123456 posted...

I bought my parents a soundbar because their TV doesn't let you use headphones and its own speakers at the same time. They don't really care, but that soundbar is slightly outta sync with their TV and it'd drive me crazy. Something to watch out for, TC.

Thats odd. What brand TV and sound bar, and how are they connected?


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gloBal enemy posted...

pegusus123456 posted...

I bought my parents a soundbar because their TV doesn't let you use headphones and its own speakers at the same time. They don't really care, but that soundbar is slightly outta sync with their TV and it'd drive me crazy. Something to watch out for, TC.

Thats odd. What brand TV and sound bar, and how are they connected?

Ah, I went on Amazon to check for the brand and now I remember that the TV is so dumb that I had to buy a bluetooth splitter to work for the soundbar and the headphones at the same time.
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i have a sound bar. the signa s2 by polk. it has a wireless subwoofer that gets pretty bassy too.

audiophiles hate sound bars, but they want you to spend 500 dollars on each speaker and then buy a 1000 dollar reciever so fuck that.
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pegusus123456 posted...

Ah, I went on Amazon to check for the brand and now I remember that the TV is so dumb that I had to buy a bluetooth splitter to work for the soundbar and the headphones at the same time.

Thats why. Bluetooth introduces lag or latency without any compensation. Does the TV not have HDMI out or any other audio output eg toslink or RCA/stereo plugs?

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_BIueMonk posted...

i have a sound bar. the signa s2 by polk. it has a wireless subwoofer that gets pretty bassy too.

audiophiles hate sound bars, but they want you to spend 500 dollars on each speaker and then buy a 1000 dollar reciever so fuck that.

yep. Given I cant even turn up the sound I may as well have just gotten a sound bar. In my new apartment I never even bothered to position the rears and have all my speakers near the TV.

That being said if you have the space and the money, you can spend ridiculously big if you want bigger than a cinema kind of audio.

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gloBal enemy posted...

pegusus123456 posted...

Ah, I went on Amazon to check for the brand and now I remember that the TV is so dumb that I had to buy a bluetooth splitter to work for the soundbar and the headphones at the same time.

Thats why. Bluetooth introduces lag or latency without any compensation. Does the TV not have HDMI out or any other audio output eg toslink or RCA/stereo plugs?

No. It's a bit of a budget Roku TV.

Edit: Well, I should say that I don't remember the exact setup other than it definitely just having one audio output (which might just be a headphone jack). The real issue was just that if you put anything in that audio output, it disabled the TV's speakers. My dad's super deaf and watches TV with headphones, so my mom wouldn't be able to watch TV at the same time.
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are there any other audio outputs? Sounds like youve connected the headphones to the headphones out rather than audio line out but youre right it would create an issue since headphones out usually disabled inbuilt speakers and line out usually doesnt have volume control and hence relies on the headphones to have their own amplification and volume control.

The only other option is depending on your input device you may be able to output audio to both the tv and a Bluetooth device simultaneously like the Apple TV.

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gloBal enemy posted...

are there any other audio outputs? Sounds like youve connected the headphones to the headphones out rather than audio line out but youre right it would create an issue since headphones out usually disabled inbuilt speakers and line out usually doesnt have volume control and hence relies on the headphones to have their own amplification and volume control.

The only other option is depending on your input device you may be able to output audio to both the tv and a Bluetooth device simultaneously like the Apple TV.

It's this one here:
https://www.tclusa.com/products/home-theater/4-series/tcl-55-class-4-series-4k-uhd-led-roku-smart-tv-55s405

There's an optical audio port apparently, but I had no idea what to do with that tbh.
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pegusus123456 posted...

It's this one here:
https://www.tclusa.com/products/home-theater/4-series/tcl-55-class-4-series-4k-uhd-led-roku-smart-tv-55s405

There's an optical audio port apparently, but I had no idea what to do with that tbh.

looking at the specs which also mention HDMI with ARC, you could get a sound bar (anything but the cheapest) which connects over HDMI ARC and thatll give you way better sound. The only issue is I dont know how youll get audio output to both the speaker and headphones at the same time (most people wouldnt want headphones and speakers simultaneously). If the significantly better sound quality (ie louder and clearer) might work then maybe your dad wont need headphones either?

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Nah, when I say deaf, I mean super deaf. Like you can hear his headphones across the room when he's wearing them deaf.
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pegusus123456 posted...

Nah, when I say deaf, I mean super deaf. Like you can hear his headphones across the room when he's wearing them deaf.

mhmm well if the input device doesnt support multiple audio stream outputs then the only options I can think of is an audio splitter on the headphones out port which probably means two 3.5mm outputs and connect one to a set of speakers and the other to the headphones.

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