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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yes. TV speakers have gotten incredibly cheap and low quality. It's audio/visual. You've invested a fair chunk into half of the experience with a TV, but ignored the other half.

[–] luluberlue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Gotten? I never knew any TV set with at least respectable audio and I knew CRT TVs.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 points 18 hours ago

I think they were better at least, and mostly because there was space for them. In a CRT you had enough volume inside the TV to have even just little 2" drivers, now with ultrathins it's hard to fit any even moderately okay speaker in there.

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I didn't, really...I can barely afford a 1080p TV. I'm not buying a sound bar, screw that, rather do something else.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

K, like I said your personal finances are your own, but that's why you don't have good sound. Asked and answered.

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 1 points 22 hours ago

I thought it was obvious that it was a rhetorical question, man