Re: Sound bars

2014-05-11 Thread Gary Wood
I've never heard one, but I thought in a post that someone said that he got that surround experience. - Original Message - From: Hamit Campos hamitcam...@gmail.com To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2014 7:07 AM Subject: RE: Sound bars I'll

Re: Sound bars

2014-05-11 Thread Gary Wood
. - Original Message - From: pete gurney p...@gurneyfamily.org.uk To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2014 9:48 AM Subject: Re: Sound bars hello all, i'm a bit late coming in on this but if you get a really good sound bar it can be as good as a wired

RE: Sound bars

2014-05-11 Thread Hamit Campos
or one like the one you are talking about. My brother-in-law has one. Epic! -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Gary Wood Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2014 4:00 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Sound bars This sounds like it makes

RE: Sound bars

2014-05-11 Thread Hamit Campos
, 2014 3:45 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Sound bars I've never heard one, but I thought in a post that someone said that he got that surround experience. - Original Message - From: Hamit Campos hamitcam...@gmail.com To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent

Re: Sound bars

2014-05-11 Thread Gary Wood
Would be nice. - Original Message - From: Hamit Campos hamitcam...@gmail.com To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2014 9:54 AM Subject: RE: Sound bars Well, somewhat of a surround experience. To get a true one, sadly you will need all 5 or 7

Re: Sound bars

2014-05-10 Thread Gary Wood
I hear they are long, but I would think you wouldn't get surround sound from something that's a long rectangle. - Original Message - From: Merv Keck blind5spar...@gmail.com To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, May 09, 2014 4:24 PM Subject: RE: Sound bars

Re: Sound bars

2014-05-10 Thread Gary Wood
, May 09, 2014 7:47 PM Subject: RE: Sound bars Hello Mike and list: Although I've not heard or seen the Soundbar, I would have to say that most anything is an improvement over what the television sets themselves supply you as far as audio is concerned! It's a shame that you can get a great big

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2014-05-10 Thread Hamit Campos
Discussion List Subject: Re: Sound bars But I would rather hear it from a soundbar, or like I have it, with my surround sound and speakers. Maybe I'll have to check those soundbars out somewhere. - Original Message - From: Tom Kaufman tomca...@comcast.net To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio

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2014-05-10 Thread Hamit Campos
[mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Gary Wood Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2014 4:17 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Sound bars I hear they are long, but I would think you wouldn't get surround sound from something that's a long rectangle. - Original Message - From: Merv

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2014-05-10 Thread Mike Thomas
@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, May 09, 2014 8:47 PM Subject: RE: Sound bars Hello Mike and list: Although I've not heard or seen the Soundbar, I would have to say that most anything is an improvement over what the television sets themselves supply you as far as audio is concerned! It's a shame

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2014-05-10 Thread Tom Kaufman
would probably work fine! Tom Kaufman -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Hamit Campos Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2014 8:08 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Sound bars I'll stick to a true surround sound system thanks. I understand

Re: Sound bars

2014-05-10 Thread pete gurney
hello all, i'm a bit late coming in on this but if you get a really good sound bar it can be as good as a wired surround sound system. i have both a sound bar in the front room and a wired surround system in the dining room they are both made by yamaha and the soundbar sounds every bit as good as

Re: Sound bars

2014-05-10 Thread Gary Schindler
, then the soundbar would probably work fine! Tom Kaufman -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Hamit Campos Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2014 8:08 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Sound bars I'll stick to a true surround sound system thanks

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2014-05-10 Thread Tom Kaufman
Thomas Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2014 9:28 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Sound bars Hi Tom, Most certainly, a sound bar will help a whole lot.I have a 40 inch television and added a 37 inch sound bar. They offer enough internal enclosure to give it some of that rich depth the old

Re: Sound bars

2014-05-10 Thread Mike Thomas
...@comcast.net To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2014 1:44 PM Subject: RE: Sound bars Hello Mike and list: That might be just the thing I would need as a lot of my TV watching is back here in the room where I keep most of my stuff...bud now and then (if I have

RE: Sound bars

2014-05-10 Thread Hamit Campos
Yeah, for small rooms and stuff. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom Kaufman Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2014 10:00 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Sound bars I'd say (and granted I don't know as much about it as you all do

RE: Sound bars

2014-05-09 Thread Merv Keck
A sound bar is exactly what it implies in the case of the one we have. We have a Samsung and it is a long rectangle shaped bar of sound that can sit on the floor or a shelf or be mounted on the wall. It has connections for digital audio, HDMI, and also has a USB card input although that is not

RE: Sound bars

2014-05-09 Thread Merv Keck
I can't speak for Bose but on the Samsung that we own you could not sit anything on top of it because everything that is on the remote is duplicated as a touch sensitive control on the top of the sound bar.

Re: Sound bars

2014-05-09 Thread Dane Trethowan
Okay thanks, more to think about smile. On 10 May 2014, at 8:02 am, Merv Keck blind5spar...@gmail.com wrote: I can't speak for Bose but on the Samsung that we own you could not sit anything on top of it because everything that is on the remote is duplicated as a touch sensitive control on

Re: Sound bars

2014-05-09 Thread Dane Trethowan
Hi again! I'm replying to your eMail for a second time as I forgot to address one of the points made in your original eMail regarding inputs. In a way the salesman at Best Buy was probably right on the money when he said your Soundbar had enough inputs and it probably does given the task it

RE: Sound bars

2014-05-09 Thread Tom Kaufman
Hello Mike and list: Although I've not heard or seen the Soundbar, I would have to say that most anything is an improvement over what the television sets themselves supply you as far as audio is concerned! It's a shame that you can get a great big 41-inch set...and have that audio sound like not

Re: Sound bars

2014-05-09 Thread Dane Trethowan
Things change rapidly in the tech work, its assumed for example in this day and age that if you buy a large Television then you also have a surround-Sound System or Soundbar to connect to it, as I said in an earlier eMail the speakers in Televisions these days because of the thickness in the