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thanks for watching tech quickie click the subscribe button then enable notifications with the Bell icon so you won't miss any future videos what's your favorite kind of bar ice cream power singles well if you're suffering from tinny unsatisfying audio from your expensive new TV a sound bar might be the friend you never knew you need it but why are they suddenly in vogue now well there actually is a reason that TV speakers these days sounds so flat in a week back when we were all using large heavy CRTs the additional space inside the chassis allowed manufacturers to build in bigger more powerful speakers and the simple fact is that richer sounds especially in the Boush range need physical space as well as large enough drivers to be reproduced correctly but times have changed and the trend these days is for TVs to keep getting thinner and sleeker which is great for having more space to walk around in your living room and saving on your power bill but it's also left no room for a decent pair of speakers in most cases that was a pun so sound bars and sound bases your TV actually sits atop the ladder have become very popular because unlike traditional home theater kits which are often bulky with complicated set up procedures involving a bunch of messy wires most consumer sound bars are meant to be more or less self-contained units that don't take up a ton of space but still contain larger speakers that can reproduce sound more faithfully than the tiny ones built into your TV and the growing market for sound bars has driven a lot of innovation in the space nowadays they aren't just strictly replacements for stereo TV speakers and many some bars have built-in subwoofers an additional driver to enable center channel or even multiple additional drivers to enable virtual surround sound which you can learn about more right up here in fact the fanciest sound bars include upward firing drivers and can even simulate speakers on your ceiling for next gen object-based sound implementations like Dolby Atmos this is often indicated as a third number in the sambars channel description so that's pretty cool than I guess but what else should you consider once you've decided whether you the simple stereo sound bar or something that will make your living room sound like a cinema that partially depends on the size of your room larger sound bars might be able to fill a larger space but make sure you check on this before you buy as some larger sound bars don't actually dedicate more space to drivers and are just longer mostly empty cha sees without much substance under the hood like Michael Bay movies I'll not note if action flicks are your thing check to make sure your sound bar supports the audio formats you'd like to use if you want to use it for high-quality lossless audio from something like a blu-ray player it needs to be certified for those formats and have HDMI inputs instead of optical only as optical connections don't have the bandwidth for your fancier standards like DTS master audio and the after mentioned that'll be at most with all of us said if you really want to faithfully reproduce sound it is true that many AV enthusiasts prefer a traditional setup with a receiver and amplifier and speakers even the highest end sound bars often struggled to reproduce the most accurate positional sound the way speakers can and while some models of sound bars allow you to connect two separate subwoofer even wireless satellite speakers most are tightly integrated with non upgradeable components so think about whether simplicity or performance are worth more do in the long run so you can make a sound investment and speaking of sound investments FreshBooks it's challenging racing against the clock as a freelancer but with the growth of the Internet there's never been more opportunities for the self-employed to meet this need check out fresh books cloud accounting software designed for the way you work it's the simplest and easiest way to be more productive organized and most importantly get paid quickly create and send professional-looking invoices in less than 30 seconds set up online payments with just a couple of clicks and get paid up to four days faster see when your client has seen your invoice and put an end to the guessing games FreshBooks is offering a 30-day unrestricted free trial to our viewers to claim that just go to freshbooks comm slash tech wiki and enter tech quickie in the how did you hear about us section so thanks for watching guys thumbs up the video subscribe for more and make sure you go into the comments section to tell us what topics you want us to cover in the future bye-bye