Bought a posh plasma and it sounds rubbish
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So I've just replaced by 11 year old Sony 32" CRT monster of a TV with a 50" Panansonic S20 plasma. Screen is lovely and saves about half the living room space.
But the sound is woeful compared to the old TV. It's tinny and really low volume in comparison.
The worst thing is that my surround home cinema system doesn't seem to connect up to the TV. So I can only get powerful surround sound when watching a DVD (as pictures seem to feed from the home cinema box to the TV, but sound doesn't flow the other way). What am I doing wrong?
Since all the surround speakers are in place and have been wired under carpets and so on, I really don't want to have to move them.
But the sound is woeful compared to the old TV. It's tinny and really low volume in comparison.
The worst thing is that my surround home cinema system doesn't seem to connect up to the TV. So I can only get powerful surround sound when watching a DVD (as pictures seem to feed from the home cinema box to the TV, but sound doesn't flow the other way). What am I doing wrong?
Since all the surround speakers are in place and have been wired under carpets and so on, I really don't want to have to move them.
Unfortunately most flat screen TV's have poor sound, just not enough of a 'box' behind the speaker to produce any bass.
Note that HD channels are often lower volume than SD channels. Check in your audio settings, you should be able to up the max volume level, also there is a 'close to wall' and '30cm away from wall' setting, have a play and see what sounds best. There are also other EQ and presets for audio, Music, Speech etc.
I got my Panasonic to sound ok, not as good as my old Sony CRT but still acceptable for all but DVD/Film viewing.
Note that HD channels are often lower volume than SD channels. Check in your audio settings, you should be able to up the max volume level, also there is a 'close to wall' and '30cm away from wall' setting, have a play and see what sounds best. There are also other EQ and presets for audio, Music, Speech etc.
I got my Panasonic to sound ok, not as good as my old Sony CRT but still acceptable for all but DVD/Film viewing.
oyster said:
So I've just replaced by 11 year old Sony 32" CRT monster of a TV with a 50" Panansonic S20 plasma. Screen is lovely and saves about half the living room space.
But the sound is woeful compared to the old TV. It's tinny and really low volume in comparison.
The worst thing is that my surround home cinema system doesn't seem to connect up to the TV. So I can only get powerful surround sound when watching a DVD (as pictures seem to feed from the home cinema box to the TV, but sound doesn't flow the other way). What am I doing wrong?
Since all the surround speakers are in place and have been wired under carpets and so on, I really don't want to have to move them.
It all depends on how it is wired, if its an older Sony cinima kit then connect its SCART to AV2 on the TV then use the function button on the cinima kit R/C to select TV, if its not then normally you run a red/whit RCA cable from the audio output on the TV to then audio input on the cinima kit. If it worked on your last TV then it will work on this one.But the sound is woeful compared to the old TV. It's tinny and really low volume in comparison.
The worst thing is that my surround home cinema system doesn't seem to connect up to the TV. So I can only get powerful surround sound when watching a DVD (as pictures seem to feed from the home cinema box to the TV, but sound doesn't flow the other way). What am I doing wrong?
Since all the surround speakers are in place and have been wired under carpets and so on, I really don't want to have to move them.
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