for as long as there have been audio files with high-fidelity multi-speaker
surround setups there have been scrubs
who are fully satisfied with the speakers that came built into their tvs
but then in the early 2000s a curious thing
happened a middle class appeared the scrubs started buying
sound bars the first sound bar came about in 1998
and since then they've been gobbling up sales from other speaker categories at
an ever increasing rate with no sign of slowing down in the future
and in this installment of why the algebra
are you buying this we're going to discover
why why your tv speakers suck more now than
ever before and whether or not this best-selling
75 dollar sound bar off amazon.com can
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unlike most technology trends the speakers built into tvs have not been
getting better and better every year in fact they've generally been getting
worse and the reason is that tv speaker quality is not something that people
think about when they're buying a tv with many customers wheeling their new
set out of the local best buy without ever having listened to it
so since the mainstream mostly cares about screen size
picture quality and price manufacturers that are trying to push
price down without sacrificing picture quality while driving screen sizes up
naturally look to speaker quality as a logical corner to cut
but there's actually another reason that tv speakers are getting worse
tvs are getting thinner your dad's old crt was big enough to
crush a juvenile hippo so there was lots of space for the sound coming out of
proper speaker drivers to bounce around in
and the speakers could actually face the viewer a fairly obvious advantage
but the design language of modern tvs dictates that bezels be as thin as
possible so speakers either have to fire downward at the tv stand or backwards
towards the wall and then bounce back at the viewer which which is not ideal
since the reflecting surfaces can color the sound dramatically
that is why you'll see people even snooty elitist ones recommend that you
upgrade to just about anything other than your tv speakers
which is exactly where this puppy comes in
at 75 dollars it's unlikely that the two two and a half inch drivers inside the
vizio sb2920-c6
or as i call it this soundbar
are much higher quality than what you would find already on board a tv
but at least they're actually pointing at
you and the sound can resonate within its 29
inch cabinet setup is super easy you just plug it
into the wall and then well you could actually just stop there and use it as a
bluetooth speaker or you could use the included rca coaxial or digital optical
cable to connect it to your tv and you're done
this simplicity is one of the big reasons that sound bars have captured so
much market share from home theater in a box solutions i mean just because i'm
not satisfied with my tv speakers doesn't mean that i have the inclination
not to mention the space to run a bunch of wires underneath my carpet or along
my baseboards or whatever from my receiver to my satellite speakers behind
the couch and yada yada yada and some of them actually
sound pretty good like the sonos beam oh
it's got four full range woofers and one high frequency tweeter it's got voice
control via alexa and soon the google assistant and it's got support for the
brand new apple airplay 2 standard for synchronizing multiple speakers
wirelessly the this sound bar has none of that stuff
but considering the price another big sound bar advantage over
multi-speaker setups it's only really got one job
be better than tv speakers so
let's see if it can do that we're comparing our budget sound bar
against the internal speakers of two displays that we had lying around the
wasabi mango uhd430 monitor equipped
with two down firing 10 watt speakers
and the high-end lg 65ks 9500 with two
20 watt speakers also aimed towards the floor
none of our solutions sound great
but this sound bar is a definite improvement
over both of our displays in multiple ways fuller sound
deeper bass and most of all better clarity especially when listening
to low quality recordings of people with accents the most interesting takeaway
here though at least from a normie perspective is that this cheap sound bar
achieves all of this despite being advertised as being way less powerful
only 5 watts compared to the 20 and 40
watts combined of the displays and this might sound a little unintuitive but
part of why it sounds better is due to the directional stuff we talked about
earlier and another factor especially with the cheaper wasabi mango is that
the sound can be muddied by low quality
chassis materials that resonate with the audio playing along and reducing clarity
but with that said low power is still low power so while this budget bar is a
worthy upgrade when watching tv don't expect to be able to fill your house
with your favorite tunes during a house party this sound bar is not great at max
volume not only does it not get very loud but it can struggle to power itself
resulting in a skipping effect that is totally unlistenable
so conclusion time should you join the throngs of people who have bought this
sound bar well if your hearing's going and everyone on tv sounds like they're
mumbling it will help a lot and it even
has dts true volume to help equalize the volume differences between say regular
videos and freaking streaming ads so it's not a bad buy but if 75 is still
too rich for your blood well you could always try sound scoops
pieces of plastic that you velcro to your tv in an attempt to redirect your
down firing audio toward the couch i am not even kidding
i mean it's worth a shot right do you want to see a review brandon
should we review that no let us know in the comments if you agree
or disagree with brandon he's saying no i think we should
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join oh we missed a key benefit of the this sound bar it's a lot lighter than the
sonos one if someone drops it on your face
we should we should have worked that in there i think we should have worked that
can we can we work that in there i think we should work that in there
oh oh so first you hit me in the nose you
make it swell up then you make fun of me for it being big