Whats wrong with todays tv audio

You should start looking at the higher end of TV sets. The low cost TV sets will lack a lot of performance features. If you work in the rate of inflation, you will see that the new TV sets of today are very low priced, and offer low value of performance compared to what you can get for a lot more dollars spent.

Something to also consider, most of the higher end TV sets are made to be working with an independent audio system consisting of an amplifier with a set of speakers. They are designed to have excellent sound quality, which is requied when used with a quality type audio system. This will contribute to having the maximum possible quality of sound.

Jerry G. ======

Ken G. wrote:

Good points. However, I've found audio quality varies widely between programs, and on some it just plain sucks. The worst I've ever heard is "Will & Grace". I've heard it on a dozen different TV sets with different audio capabilities, and in every case I've had to crank the volume to ridiculous levels or use headphones just to understand the dialog.

Nope i have expensive Sharp LCD sets with deluxe audio & speakers .

And popup toasters made good toast.

Perhaps it's your ears?

On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 06:33:09 +0000, Homer J Simpson Has Frothed:

Yeh no kidding. I bought a new Sunbeam toaster and most of the heating elements were laying against the mica insulators rather than being looped out where they can actually glow.

I notice on my 20" RCA TruFlat DVD-TV combo that voices are much softer than music and sound effects. I find myself constantly turning it up and down whereas the audio is delivered perfectly thru my 5:1 surround in my living room.

And popup toasters made good toast.

Yes they did .. however you can still go out and get those . They have not changed .

Perhaps it's your ears?

Then why do all the radio stations on any radio sound good and clear to me and the commercials are not 2X volume .

Stop resisting :-)

And, there's a _reason_ to understand the dialog?

I sat down and eased all of them away from the mica to get a better heat. One side was always much more done than the other. Still, what do you expect for $8?

On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 18:25:23 +0000, Homer J Simpson Has Frothed:

As much as I expected for 12. :)

I have noticed that with one of my sets, a Toshiba. I do not have the factory remote for the Toshiba and so cannot set the audio options properly. I suspect the set is in Mono mode, but is accepting L and R from the cable box. It seems that under some programming (variable within a program) the phasing is off and the sound is muffled. Voice especially suffers. My new Sony LCD panel, is operating stereo from an HDMI cable and sounds just fine.

If I can't find the proper remote for the Toshiba, I will probably combine the L & R from the cable box with a "Y" cable and feed into only one of the inputs on the TV.

I am curious if others have heard this problem?

Ken G. wrote:

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I know what you're saying. I end up having to leave the closed-captioning on just to understand what they are saying.

LOLOL .. do you work in sales haha ..i've heard the ol .. "ya have to spend more " line before

Some TV sets these days include an audio compressor which can help with the usual complaints about some progs or ads being louder than others. Also poor loudspeakers with resonances etc can upset the clarity of speech. There's no TV I've ever heard that can't be improved drastically by the addition of even a budget external speaker system.

I started having trouble on cable channels, cable company fault, way back. Its now much better. i started using automatic volume controls. I first started using the VCR's built in circuit. I also started making automatic volume controls, and then i bought a couple. The treble should not vary widely regardless. I also had a problem using the Hughes SRS, which changed the ambiance volume depending on program material. Just using a small TV right now with no problems on Comcast.

greg

Ever considered the possibility that your hearing is deteriorating with age ??

-- Best Regards

Mark

Some sets have small speakers and low power amplifiers.

Try connecting the audio output to a stereo amplifier. you'll notice a great improvement in the audio. I hardly listen to my set without playing it through the stereo.

b.

YES! ! ! We have noticed this, too.

The volume sometimes must go up passed 3/4, then a commercial hits and there is bone jarringly clear speech and/or music! Even as recently as

Delay and recombining the sound may be the cause for the loss of treble.

It would only take a delay between the two channels of around 147 uS to completely destroy 3.4 KHz

A telephone does not have a lot of bandwidth, only 30 Hz to around 3.4 KHz, but speech is understood. One does not need a costly sound system to recreate that spectrum.

Increasing the upper limit to 5KHz makes speech sound crisp and is very easily understood.

However, start losing the high end, move 3.4KHz down to 3 KHz and speech becomes un-intelligible. Sounds muffled, just like what these TV shows now sound like.

- Robert -