High-quality audio is a critical part of creating a compelling home theater product line. With the availability of six- and eight-channel surround sound systems, consumers expect movie theater quality sound in their living rooms and bedrooms from their televisions. New Silicon-on-Chip Designs promise better and cheaper sound bar technology to fill the gap for those who can't build out full 5.1 systems.
Discuss "Sound Bars with Chip-Based Technology Bridge Gap" here. Read the article.
I realize the author put in a lot of hard work into this article but I was still unable to remove the grin off my face as subliminal Bose commercials kept popping into my train of thought as I read the article.
As an avid Audioholic, I will continue to struggle with my speaker placement in lieu of a sound bar, Thank you very much!!!!!
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This read like a fluff piece. All I really took away from it was "some people want to use sound bars", and "sound bars will continue to get cheaper and better". Everything gets cheaper and better. There is no actual information in this article.
It might have been nice to have an article about how sound bars attempt to make surround sound from a single bar. Perhaps compare the methods used by different implementations and manufaturers to simulate sourround sound, and how well those methods succeed.
Fine, laugh it off if you will. But here you have two Audioholics fans complaining about the quality of an article that read like an advertisement, lacking in any of the facts and details that we've come to learn about this site. Keep it up with articles like this, and you're going to lose much of your readership.
I think the article is a good read and is certainly on the mark when it comes to the integration of DSP into the sound bar idea. I don't think I'll be tearing down my full size HT anytime soon but it sure is neat.
Mark
Polk Audio CS
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