#V soundbar tv

Cables make you think of things like trip hazards waiting to happen, “rat’s nests” of wires, and unsightly cords draping around the room. In general, fewer cables feels like a great thing. And even then it’s not nearly as good as genuinely separate speakers. Some of them try to fire audio off the side walls of your room to replicate a stereo image, and it can work… but only if your room is the perfect size.

It’s an awesome experience that you can’t really get with a soundbar. When you can spread the sources of the sounds out in front of you (or around you) the system can create a vivid 3D sound stage. That’s because a stereo image is created when your ears pick up sounds from different locations in the room. This makes it physically impossible to get a truly great stereo image.

#V soundbar tv

Since everything is one unit, it’s all packed in just under your TV screen. Those small cones just can’t create the best sound field when you want it loud. The other thing too is if you up the volume, sometimes even to moderate levels, you start to get obvious distortion in the mids and bass. So guitars, certain string instruments, male vocals, and other sounds are going to be at least slightly compromised. In other words, sounds in the mid frequencies and mid-bass don’t sound as clear and realistic as they could. This has a huge downside… it’s physically impossible for the cones to accurately reproduce certain frequencies. (That’s the circular part of the speaker that actually vibrates the air.) In making the whole product slim, the soundbar has extremely small speaker cones.

Because there are trade-offs to making them small and simple. That’s why we’re going to get a little real here and go through their weaknesses. So if you don’t learn about their weaknesses, you’d have no reason to doubt that they’re the perfect solution…īut I can tell you they are FAR from perfect. A lot of retail shops today are pushing soundbars.