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Bruno1

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I am in the process of updating my Tv set upmy room is 18 feet wide 16 feet deep with 9 foot cieling I am not doing 5.1 and would like suggestions on what you all think would do the best job with a focus on me hearing tv dialoug my budget 3 thousand
 
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I found an EQ really helps with dialog on certain shows.
Muddled sound clears up a lot when I boost 2-8khz
ranges*. Bonus: $100-200 will get a decent unit.

*disclaimer: that could just be my hearing, which I'd be
more inclined to believe if it happened on all shows. It
doesn't.
 
Problem with most flat screens is the speakers are either in back or the bottom of the set, so it makes it difficult for hearing challenged individuals to make out dialog. I've lived thorough experience with the wife. Expensive is nice, but not necessary as it appears your not interested in hooking up satellite speakers for surround, and toit the accompanying subwoofer. I would not recommend cheap either, less options for adjusting the internal EQ options. Hi end is ... High End, and will have a lot of options and will likely appeal to your needs, but you'd be paying for speakers and a sub you won't be using.

My son bought my wife a lesser expensive model that just wasn't working out. I went to Best Buy and bought her one little more then 5 hundred and she was very satisfied with the results. Maybe let that be your starting point.

Garry~
 
I got one for somewhere around $100 and it is phenomenal compared to the old 5.1 that I tried to do myself. I did make a wooden stand so it could tilt up at about a 45° angle to fire off the TV set as well as the ceiling as the speakers in the unit are in the top and the front. I will say that the technology behind it is pretty good and a lot of movies that take advantage of 5.1 stuff this thing comes off as being very scary realistic everything from footsteps from the 2nd floor above me to somebody breathing behind me. My bass speaker is Bluetooth connected and under a table next to a couch. Base being somewhat non directional , it works out really well. Good luck!
 
RxDx said:
I found an EQ really helps with dialog on certain shows.
Muddled sound clears up a lot when I boost 2-8khz
ranges*. Bonus: $100-200 will get a decent unit.

*disclaimer: that could just be my hearing, which I'd be
more inclined to believe if it happened on all shows. It
doesn't.
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I sometimes resort to headphones — especially if there is a lot of room noise.
 
We got a Sennheiser Ambeo Max and simply love it....I give it a full happiness rating.

Easy integration with a sub of any brand if you want, as well.

Ambeo
 
We sold M&K speakers for quite a few years and I liked their sound bars with an added M&K sub woofer, but that was 30+ years ago. Klipsch was making some strong sound bars but here again you need a sub to go with the bar. Klipsch we sold for awhile you just plugged in a HDMI cable to your TV and a connection cable to the sub and with a little tweaking you were good to go, but here again that was about 15 years ago. If Klipsch is still building their units that is what I would choose.
 
I don't think $3000 on a soundbar will get much value over units that are 1/4 and even 1/10 that cost.

I have a Yamaha YAS-109 that is discontinued but there appears to be a successor that is similar, the SR-B20A. It is not up to the standards of my Hsu 5.1 HT, but the YAS-109 has great and to my ears accurate sound, with some useful EQ settings on the remote including the self-explanatory ClearVoice, which actually sort of works.

I found every soundbar-included subwoofer to be inferior to a "real" subwoofer and I listened to just about all of them - Sonos, Bose, Sony, JBL, TCL, Roku, Samsung, LG, etc.

The Yamaha above is the soundbar I would go with because it has a subwoofer output and does not come with an inferior OEM sub. I paired it with a stealthy Dayton SUB-1000L and it sounds fantastic. <$300 total in 2021 but probably more like $450. The hardest part was getting a well-shielded 20' RCA cable for the sub.
 
I picked up a Yamaha YAS-109 for $5 at a garage sales a few years back. Great sound and still going strong!
 
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