Soundbar for TV

50Twuncle

We have a 32"Panasonic TV and in common with most other flat screen TV's - the sound is poor
We are looking at Sound bars - but what do we buy ?
They go from £30 to £500+
We are looking at the bottom end - not being sound experts - just looking for more volume without distortion - what should we pay and what is recommended ?
It would appear that most have bluetooth but what is the TV connection and does it make a noticeable difference ?
We have Sky.

custardy

You ask what the TV connection is,then dont tell us what TV you have....

Low end are usually 3.5mm jack or line in.
further up the range optical/HDMI.
THe bluetooth feature is for other devices to connect,not for the TV

We run a Kitsound upstage wall mounted in the bedroom

http://www.trustedreviews.com/reviews/kitsound-upstage

Does a nice job with good connection options. Got it direct from Kitsound on Ebay.

In the livingroom we run a speaker stand

http://rus.panasonic.ru/discontinued/home_audio/hometeatr/home_theater/SC-HTR210E-K

Long since discontinued but still come up 2nd hand. Nice understanted unit with plenty of ooomph.

50Twuncle

32 inch Panasonic

custardy

50Twuncle wrote: »

32 inch Panasonic

That tells us absolutly nothing about what connections your TV has.

50Twuncle

custardy wrote: »

That tells us absolutly nothing about what connections your TV has.

Sorry - its a Viera TX-L32E5B
It had Digital Audio Out - so any sound bar would need similar IN !
Which I assume is normal ?

50Twuncle

custardy wrote: »

http://rus.panasonic.ru/discontinued/home_audio/hometeatr/home_theater/SC-HTR210E-K

You are joking (I hope) - this is a Russian piece of kit made from old Lada and Moskvitch parts - that will more than likely switch itself on and wake us up in the middle of the night and then poison our minds with Russian propaganda !!!

custardy

50Twuncle wrote: »

Sorry - its a Viera TX-L32E5B
It had Digital Audio Out - so any sound bar would need similar IN !
Which I assume is normal ?

Well that depends on the sound bar you have.
If your tv has a headphone socket,it can utilise that.
If it has optivcal,then that.
If it has HDMI then that.
My own soundbar has all 3 options plus RCA.

50Twuncle wrote: »

You are joking (I hope) - this is a Russian piece of kit made from old Lada and Moskvitch parts - that will more than likely switch itself on and wake us up in the middle of the night and then poison our minds with Russian propaganda !!!

Really,the well known Russion make of Panasonic?