Want to get a Sound Bar for tv

liam8282

I want to get a sound bar to go with my Samsung tv.

It does not necessarly have to be samsung. I would like it to have an ipod / iphone connection. Looking to spend less than £150. (the lower the better!) I want something quite powerful as I will be using it as a stereo too via the ipod.

Any ideas?

safc118

liam8282 wrote: »

I want to get a sound bar to go with my Samsung tv.

It does not necessarly have to be samsung. I would like it to have an ipod / iphone connection. Looking to spend less than £150. (the lower the better!) I want something quite powerful as I will be using it as a stereo too via the ipod.

Any ideas?

Now i know this is over your budget but it has everything your after and more

Video output via ipod dock
Cracking sound
iPod certified remote
awsome sound too

http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/orbitsound-soundbar-with-ipod-dock-10783806-pdt.html

Now you see its £179.99 when with a TV however when i bought mine the colleague said they have a incentive to sell them so ask a nice sales assistant and they should put it through at £179.99 for you

John_Gray

This is an entirely ludicrous concept.

They make LCD TVs which are so thin that they can't fit any decent speakers into them. So you have to buy a sound bar at about half the price of the TV to get sound of adequate quality.

Duh?

GunJack

John_Gray wrote: »

This is an entirely ludicrous concept.

They make LCD TVs which are so thin that they can't fit any decent speakers into them. So you have to buy a sound bar at about half the price of the TV to get sound of adequate quality.

Duh?

it's getting silly.....I blame the "iThing and let's make it thin as poss" culture

liam8282

My tv has ok sound for regular tv watching.

I currently have a mini cd, ipod dock, dab, which is faulty. When I watch films I have the tv sound output through that.

I just think it will look better with a soundbar, rather than a mini system with speakers.

pinkteapot

Watch the height of them. We found that, as our TV is on quite a short base and sitting on a TV unit, soundbars wouldn't actually fit directly below it. We would have had to have one on one of the TV unit shelves but they're already full with the DVD player, blu-ray player, Sky box, Wii, 360...

The better soundbars come with a sub so you'll still have a box under the TV (as well as the soundbar itself). The ones without a sub didn't sound that great when we went round the shops to test them.

£250 but we got this:
http://homeavdirect.co.uk/q-acoustics-q-tv2-discreet-2-1-hd-sound-system
http://www.qacoustics.co.uk/q-tv/q-tv2.htm

Very cool - it has a sort of flat panel sub which is on the back of the TV, and then two speakers on the side which are all you see from the front of the TV. The bass isn't as strong as you'd get with a normal boxy sub but it's decent (you can feel movie rumbles in the sofa) and a very neat solution for people like us with no room for a sub on the TV stand.

Agree with the comments above re thin TVs. Our old Toshiba LCD started dying and we got a Sony Bravia. The sound was absolutely atrocious compared to the Toshiba - no bass whatsoever.

knightstyle

Just bought a Konig 2.1 on Rbay for £60 but see they are much more now. Great bit of kit to connect to a TV.

letsbehonest

I've been thinking of buying one myself (soundbar) Have a look at the Phillips HTS 3111 about £150, done some research and gets a good write up.

Pugwash69

I don't understand why TV sound is quite so bad. I have used an external receiver for years now so it's not an issue, but the wafer-thin laptop I bought (Asus Zenbook) has excellent sound by B&O that defies the size.

UncleZen

Eight Soundbar reviews on Reg Hardware here:

http://www.reghardware.com/2011/04/21/eight_soundbars/

liam8282

http://www.philips-shop.co.uk/store/catalog/home-cinema-sound/home-cinema-speakers/soundbar/productdetail/CSS2123_05_GB_SHOPPUB/GB/en

http://www.philips-shop.co.uk/store/catalog/home-audio/mini-systems/100-w-dock-for-ipod-iphone/productdetail/FWM200D_05_GB_SHOPPUB/GB/en

I went for those in the end. Ordered last week when I spotted the HUKD codes and got a double up on codes to get 20% & then 40% off.

Should do what I need, and cost about £120 altogether. Getting delivered today.