Subharmonicon
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My father liked my atc scm7 mk2 so much he bought a mint pair for the telly, he has them thru a quad unit. TV sounds great I must say!
Hooking your tv up to some stereo speakers is a great improvement, but adding a centre channel and an AV amp a makes it a whole load better. In particular, dialogue is much clearer, and you don’t have to sit dead centre for voices to come from the screen. Particularly worthwhile if you are watching tv with other people.
Spendor S3/5R driven by a Quad 303 here.
What path from the TV to the 303? Headphone jack, or does your tv have variable level phono output?
Quad 57s make quite good TV speakers in my experience. If they can be sited either side of the screen their imaging abilities are pretty good at centreing dialogue.The key to decent tv sound is speakers with nice midrange that don’t exaggerate bass and treble.
Great if your system's on standby all and s/s. For dramas etc. I use cans as I have RCA line-outs via long Chord I/C to my can amp. Don't think that amp would power speakers without another amp.Had my TV through the main system for 20 years,
I like that but surprised there's enough amplification to drive decent external spkrstook back off telly, hooked them up instead of the (£35) flat tv's internal spkrs,
Are you American? (s/c for noun)no tv license for me thanks.
Yes, that appeals but even that has a complexity I don't really want to get into (esp. buying one which will interface with my old TV). I've got loads of small speakers and The Captain's method appeals to by basic DIY skills.For any TV any decent sound bar is a massive improvement. This is an easily sorted problem.
No good for 'through' rooms like mine; you'd never get past !Quad 57s make quite good TV speakers in my experience
You could call a Naim Muso a soundbar, it's just a box plonked by the TV but it's a reasonably ok sound.@Mike Reed
I was very surprised too- but yes there's plenty of tv amp oomph, as I often have to turn it down as it's so loud & just have to make sure I don't go above 8 out of 10 on the tv volume.. or I worry I'll blow the speakers!
I'd be astounded if any soundbar sounded this good, as they wouldn't have anything like this quality mission speakers. (Panasonic TX-L32S10B telly).
Licence then. Terribly sorry!
You've got me going there, Captain ! 12 y.o. Sony ready for DIY bodging but unfortunately I.B. (sealed box) spkrs; inefficient) but good stands. However, I have to go up to almost max on BBC (via Virgin) just to properly activate the internal spkrs so I guess it's a case of whether my external spkrs are more efficient than the internal ones.I was very surprised too- but yes there's plenty of tv amp oomph, as I often have to turn it down as it's so loud & just have to make sure I don't go above 8 out of 10 on the tv volume.. or I worry I'll blow the speakers!
Those cheapo dacs on Amazon are probably better than anything in TVs in any case.Headphone jack via an Audio Synthesis passive pre. The latter is only there to enable other inputs, e.g. a multi-format Cambridge 752BD disc player. I have the switchable 3.5mm TV output set to headphones rather than line so I can adjust the volume with the TV remote. Annoyingly headphone/line outputs are becoming more scarce on TVs so I suspect when this one (a 50” Sony 4K) dies, as it inevitably will, I may end up having to fart around with DACs etc.