Soundbar for TV.

[rambo19]

My sister bought me a very nice LG internet tell for christmas.

My birthday is coming up and she has asked me what I want.
I would like a soundbar, but know bugger all about them, TV is in my bedroom, so not a massive room.

From what I have read, if I connect with an optical cable, I get better sound.

Anyone recomend one? Budget of £50.
Cheers.

[Black can man]

Think you will struggle to get a new one for that price sir .

[Bikerjon]

£50? Just use the TV's internal speakers! My two LG TV's both have reasonable speakers and were even better once wall-mounted.

[snuffy]

I bought a new LG TV just after Christmas and bought one of these to go with it:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07C2Y66MM

You can connect on Bluetooth but I found it was flakely, so it would connect and then when you turned the TV off and on again it would default to the internal speakers. Also, the picture and sound would drift apart every few minutes. Looking at forums it seems these problems are common.

So I connected it on a optical cable and it works fine. The TV's internal speakers where actually not that bad. You can certainly tell the difference but they are acceptable.

[eybic]

I made the mistake of spending £50 on a Samsung soundbar, it was awful, worse than the standard TV speakers. It seems you need to spend at least £150 to get anything worthwhile.

[sgrimshaw]

If you can stretch the budget to £100 then Richer Sounds have a small selection in that price range:

https://www.richersounds.com/tv-home-cinema/soundb...

[LuS1fer]

I bought a JVC compact soundbar for £57 off Amazon. Only 16.5" (42cm) wide so barely noticeable.
It is short and, well...compact so will never give a cinematic sound experience but it is notably louder and bassier than the inbuilt speakers in my 40" Samsung which, of their type, were quite reasonable.
It has a button for source and but two options - movie and music unless you want to play with the custom settings.
I already had an optical cable so the cost was mitigated on that, which you have to buy extra.

Overall, I'm not wowed but it's plainly far better than the stock TV, gets good reviews and is not so expensive you'd care much.
Has bluetooth too.

[okenemem]

make sure you get on with a bass box/ subwoofer

[Whoozit]

I fitted a Samsung HW-E450 5 years ago costing £230, and haven't regretted it once. A quick peek on ebay shows a second hand one available for £39. https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/Samsung-HW-E450-Speaker-S...

[audi321]

okenemem said:

make sure you get on with a bass box/ subwoofer

+1-and wireless too if possible

[davek_964]

Bikerjon said:

£50? Just use the TV's internal speakers! My two LG TV's both have reasonable speakers and were even better once wall-mounted.

+1 - I'm genuinely surprised how good the speakers are on my bedroom LG. I expected them to be woeful - I even put some unused speakers in the room in preparation for connecting up an old amp I've got. But the sound quality is pretty decent (I have 7.1 setup in the lounge, so I have a pretty high baseline) and I have concluded the speakers aren't needed.

[AJB88]

I bought a LG soundbar to go with my old LG tv, its now fitted to my new LG tv. was about £70 from Sainsbury's at the time.

it connects via optical cable, it doesn't matter how much fine tuning you do you can never get the sound to sync.

[Luke.]

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/up-to-100-off-sou...