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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 debate is the fitting a bleep who pinky 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 $75.00 sound bar off amazon.com can solve the problem speaking of problem solving Colton solved our problem of not having a sponsor for this video with thermal take thermal takes view 71 supports Mini ITX micro ATX ATX and the ATX motherboards with a variety of mounting options for your GPU and radiator check out today at the link below to learn more 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 him and the speaker's 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 it's unlikely that the two two and a half inch drivers inside the Vizio SB to nine to zero dash c6 or as I call it this sound bar are much higher quality than what you would find already onboard 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 for my receiver to my satellite speakers behind the couch and yadda yadda yadda and some of them actually sound pretty good like the Sonos oh it's got four full range woofers and one high frequency tweeter it's got voice control via a le x8 and soon the Google assistant and it's got support for the brand-new Apple AirPlay to 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 UHD 430 monitor equipped with two down firing 10 watt speakers and the high-end LD 65 KS 9500 with 220 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 normy 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 place 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 the 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 hearings 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 cut I am not even kidding I mean it's worth the 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it's awesome get subscribed hit that like button or check out the link to where to buy this stuff we featured in the video description also linked in our description is our merch stores has cool shorts like this one and our community forum which you should totally 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 sure worth that it can we can we work that in there I think we should work that in there oh 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