The degradation of TV audio was inevitable once flatscreen monitors started to get really thin and big. We now sit farther than ever from our screens, which leads to higher pitched dialog getting quieter (since it attenuates faster than low pitched sounds - think about how you can hear a car stereo from around the block, but can’t hear your neighbor’s baby crying). In addition, our quest to eliminate speaker grills has led to designs that either point speakers straight down (obviously bad), or use complex sound piping to reorient sound through small openings (sorta bad).
When you add in the fact that most TV and films are now designed explicitly for surround sound and/or good headphones, you can imagine how bad things get for most people.
Ever since my first apartment, I’ve always routed my TV and my computers through a stereo system. Idk how people can stand integrated speakers.
My stereo setup is a garbage low end early 2000s bookshelf situation, but it’s still miles better than a anything I’ve heard that gets pumped out the back (the back??!) of even super expensive flat screens.
I’d argue, that lower frequencies (male voices) are harder to understand, because built in tv speaker struggle to reproduce them. The attenuation should not really matter in a closed room, a size that normal people can afford.
Am I the only one that has always had a surround system? We got our first one with our first HDTV for 80 bucks now we have a 7.2 for the 4k and unless the audio mixing is bad we don’t use them and most of the time we only use the temporary ones. I don’t like the visual experience to be interrupted by floating words.
The degradation of TV audio was inevitable once flatscreen monitors started to get really thin and big. We now sit farther than ever from our screens, which leads to higher pitched dialog getting quieter (since it attenuates faster than low pitched sounds - think about how you can hear a car stereo from around the block, but can’t hear your neighbor’s baby crying). In addition, our quest to eliminate speaker grills has led to designs that either point speakers straight down (obviously bad), or use complex sound piping to reorient sound through small openings (sorta bad).
When you add in the fact that most TV and films are now designed explicitly for surround sound and/or good headphones, you can imagine how bad things get for most people.
Ever since my first apartment, I’ve always routed my TV and my computers through a stereo system. Idk how people can stand integrated speakers.
My stereo setup is a garbage low end early 2000s bookshelf situation, but it’s still miles better than a anything I’ve heard that gets pumped out the back (the back??!) of even super expensive flat screens.
Isn’t it a possibility these expensive tvs have very little effort put into the acoustics, assuming the consumer will purchase a sound bar?
yeah, probably 🤷🏾♀️
I’d argue, that lower frequencies (male voices) are harder to understand, because built in tv speaker struggle to reproduce them. The attenuation should not really matter in a closed room, a size that normal people can afford.
Other than that I think you are totally right.
Am I the only one that has always had a surround system? We got our first one with our first HDTV for 80 bucks now we have a 7.2 for the 4k and unless the audio mixing is bad we don’t use them and most of the time we only use the temporary ones. I don’t like the visual experience to be interrupted by floating words.