For something that is in a small room, can you hear a big difference with a 39" HDTV?
855550
We're using it in a relatively small room with a 40" TV and it made a huge difference.
855551
We have a 50" TV, in a large room- and it made a huge improvement in sound. Especially base tones.
855552
I have a 42" HDTV in a relatively small room and to me the sound bar provides clearer sound with better separation between voices and background music/sound.
855553
i'm not a fancy person. not into all the high tech gizmos and gadgets, just want and look for things that are simple easy and inexpensive. I was thrilled with the amount of sound difference the rca soundbar did. I use it in both my living room and bedroom and couldn't be happier with it.
855554
Yes, I am one that can't stand the very limited sound that comes from any tv. This sound bar was a nice compromise between my wife and I vs. putting a 5.1 system in the spare bedroom.
1609491
I bought a sound bar for my T.V. The sound from the set itself is not too bad, but not good enough if you have a big living room.
248639
That's probaby about as big as I'd go, but yes, assuming you're not trying to drown out people who are having conversations it should be plenty. To give an example, my son, 30 feet away in the living, room, often asks me to turn this down because he can't hear the TV clearly.
1453595
these are small but powerful speakers. Probably not strong enough to get decent sound quality on your large screen TV.
477236
You ask for a subjective but my guess is that you would not hear a significant difference given the sound reproduction limitations of the soundbar. I own this AT soundbar and love it for what it is. Just about the perfect bedroom system where you can't, or don't want to, live with speakers everywhere. Newer tvs auto-detect the HDMI source. You do have to manually select the soundbar audio source, probably on the remote. The soundbar display shows the sources as S1, S2 etc so you have to remember which is which. This can be cumbersome I suppose but everyone here knows S1 is PS4, yada. So... HDMI sources to tv, audio sources via light pipe to soundbar. Select HDMI souce on tv and audio source on the soundbar remote. If you want to hear and enjoy the fancy decoding you should buy a great receiver and great 7.1 speakers. This AT soundbar is not a mini-7.1 system, it is a fat and usable 3.1 near 5.1 system.
748946
It's pretty loud but of course like any tv, they have generic paper cone speakers so you're not going to get the best sound. I don't go past 20 one the volume and that's about the quarter way of the volume bar so I'm sure it's pretty loud.
994590
Sound is seldom good on a flatscreen, but honestly, I am not sure I tested much for that as I never planned to use theTV's sound. I have since returrned this item. More a Tv that a monitor. Being a ViewSonic confused me bad.
751848
It is noticeable depending on where you are sitting in the room and how loud you have the volume. So yeah its cool considering its 1 relatively small box but obviously true surround sound speakers are going to be better.
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I don't believe so. Can't answer exactly because I recently passed my unit on to Goodwill. I found no significant difference between it and my TV speakers. And I don't have a high end TV, just a 32" Samsung.
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Yes absolutely. I dont think the size of the TV is a factor though. Its the size of the room where you are placing it. I have it in a room that is 25x15 feet and it sounds just amazing.
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hi, i have a similar size room, tried 26, 32 , and 37 inch. 32 is best. one thing not talked about often is, there's also a minimum viewing distance for these tvs, esp. 720p. any closer, you see the pixels, any noise in the image, etc. with a hq tv like samsung, sony, sharp, my experiments indicate for a 32" around 5 feet is about as close as i'd want to go. anything else, i'd have to go to 1080p (the sharp 32" aquos 1080p model is great up to 3 feet, but more $$). btw, right now you can pick up a samsung LN-T3242H at circuit city for $720 if you're a AAA member (you need to go to www.aaa.com/circuitcity to get a coupon code). this model is a level down from the 3253H but i picked one up yesterday and so far it seems pretty good to me. you can read about both models on amazon. good luck.
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I bought the Sharp for my son. The sound was weaker, but according to him, that is the price we pay for the thinner TVs. I also bought a Samsung Smart TV for my house. Both have the same problem. He solved the problem on his with a sound bar. I just turn mine up high. I will probably add speakers to mine eventually.
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My room is 15 X 30 Feet, will these work well for home theatre use? I don't listen to music much
429556
about the same as all the other 32" tv's - not very good, but good enough for low volume listening in the kitchen which is where I use mine
417480
That depends a lot on the tv. If it's a newer HD with 40 in or larger screen, I doubt thatyou'll see an advantage without the bookshelf speakers Most new tv have decen audio. I use the BIC as a center fill on a high end receiver based system
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It will improve both over the use of just the TV's speakers. Night and day difference in quality.
1827953
Just set mine up. I do have a home theater system, so it isn't an issue with me. But I am also not impressed with the sound from the tv. You certainly should be able to hear it over other noise, even though it could be louder.