Bad Sounding TVs

We purchased a LG 20 inch LCD TV to replace our old Sony 13 inch CRT that got lightninged. [Firefox thinks lightninged is a real word, cool].

The picture is really pretty good – and I watch it from about 2 – 3 feet away, as it is on my desk to keep me company during those long hours on the computer.

But the sound sucks. SUCKS. It is so tinny, and frequency limited. It is pit-eeee-full.

And it has no stereo output jacks either. Oops. Usually I remember to check for this but, well, age takes its toll.

So anyway, I decided to use a trick I used in College, and take the output from thbe headphone jack and run that into the stereo (such as it is, a Lexicon DC-1 that is still working, amazingly enough – our MC-1 spontaneously died, the POS, POS defined as the repairs costing as much as a used one, about 10% of the orig $6500 price, plus upgrades like $100s to ‘fix’ DTS, which never worked in the first place – running into self power Yamahahaha speakers, througb Nordost Quatro Fil interconnect that I bought way back before we started Audio Federation, off of alt.rec.audiomarketplace or something).

And, lo, this jack to get the audio from the computer to the stereo happened to be lying on my desk – my desk is very cluttered with such things.

Works great. BETTER than the audio straight out of the Sony Blu-ray BDP-S1 player, (IT has stereo out), in fact. Not much better, but hey, it is WAY better than the sound coming out of the microscopic speakers in this LCD TV.

Whew! It was really driving me nuts.

And, yes, that is the last episode of the Season 1 DVD of Heroes on the TV there. Thanks, Steve for recommending it. It was great!