Ok, wish I had brought this up when we were going over RCA adapters in the other thread.
Magnificent new 70 class TV sittin in the living room. Playin with the internal speakers, not great but not bad at all. Have the good ole AIWA surround stereo that has served me well for 30 years (cant hook up yet). Also have the new ARC-RCA adapter coming from Amazon for it that we discussed in the other thread.
So...family trip to Wally yesterday, Christmasy and lots of fun and sitting there are black friday leftover sound bars. RCA w/ subwoofer 60w for 79 bucks. Picked one up, connected with 3.5 cable and its not even HALF what the internal speakers are. Really sucks, even with soundbar controls turned all the way up.
Now I admit I know nothing about the soundbar game, havent shopped it and havent studied it out. Seemed like 60w would have been PLENTY for me and mamma but this thing is pathetic.
If I did something wrong...lemme know.
If you know whats better....for SURE lemme know (and shorten my learning curve pls)
If I just gotta go with the 150-200-300 watt units....lemme know.
What we want..... Decent sound. A bit better than internal speakers. NOT theater quality or anything like that. I already have that in place. Not looking for massive wattage unless its just a necessity to achieve decent sound output. Just something that comes on with the TV and projects good sound in the 12-15 foot range or fills a 15x20 room (so 300sqft)
TIA
Magnificent new 70 class TV sittin in the living room. Playin with the internal speakers, not great but not bad at all. Have the good ole AIWA surround stereo that has served me well for 30 years (cant hook up yet). Also have the new ARC-RCA adapter coming from Amazon for it that we discussed in the other thread.
So...family trip to Wally yesterday, Christmasy and lots of fun and sitting there are black friday leftover sound bars. RCA w/ subwoofer 60w for 79 bucks. Picked one up, connected with 3.5 cable and its not even HALF what the internal speakers are. Really sucks, even with soundbar controls turned all the way up.
Now I admit I know nothing about the soundbar game, havent shopped it and havent studied it out. Seemed like 60w would have been PLENTY for me and mamma but this thing is pathetic.
If I did something wrong...lemme know.
If you know whats better....for SURE lemme know (and shorten my learning curve pls)
If I just gotta go with the 150-200-300 watt units....lemme know.
What we want..... Decent sound. A bit better than internal speakers. NOT theater quality or anything like that. I already have that in place. Not looking for massive wattage unless its just a necessity to achieve decent sound output. Just something that comes on with the TV and projects good sound in the 12-15 foot range or fills a 15x20 room (so 300sqft)
TIA
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