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I am trying to add quality sound to my TV set up. Since I am in an apartment, I do not care about thundering bass which would disturb my neighbors. But, as you know, built in tv speakers are not good. So, can you recommend some options to bring real sound to my TV? I currently have old 40" Sony Bravia and Sony Blu Ray player...but, I need much better sound. Does this mean buying an amplifier and 2 speakers? As for budget, under $500 would be good.
Powered speakers so you don't need any additional amplification. Active crossovers and AMT tweeters for very accurate sound. And the bass is extremely tight. These sound fantastic. Clearly superior to a soundbar unless you spend a lot of money on some sort of high-end soundbar, and since they're separate you can position them for optimal stereo placement and a wide audio image.
You would need a preamp of some sort to control the volume, or RCA outs from the TV that let you control volume would work too.
I bought a Sony Sound bar and sub woofer for about $150 just after Christmas. Sounds great, plenty of sound, and enough bass to make things interesting. You can always turn the volume of the subwoofer down and you can turn the subwoofer completely off if you're doing any very late night TV watching.
I went for a soundbar recently and was introduced to the wonderful world of audio delay. Basically, if your tv doesn't have some type of audio sync setting, you're going to notice the dialogue being out of sync with the picture. I returned mine about a week later and went back to relying on the tv's internal speakers.
The safest bet would be a pair of powered speakers, like these:
Cheaper solution: You could get a good set of amplified computer speakers and just plug them into the headphone jack of the TV. Assuming your TV has a headphone jack (I think most do).
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