You don't know how bad most things are nor precisely how they're bad

Re:You don't know how bad most things are nor precisely how ... by bsder on Thursday August 22, 2024 @06:20PM (#41324806)

> A soundbar doesn't have any of those problems, is usually the cheaper option, and still sounds much better than built-in speakers.

The specific problem here seems to be that soundbars have gone actively backward over time.

I had an old JBL soundbar whose only issue was that it had no Bluetooth security. This meant that someone in the apartment complex would randomly connect to it and blast us with 900 decibels of whatever they were watching--generally at 7:30AM.

So, we went searching for a replacement. We must have listened to every soundbar available at retail.

They were all expensive and all sucked--none of them were better than that 10 year old JBL.

Eventually we opted for a sound system that was not particularly cheap. And my wife still complains that it doesn't sound any better than the old soundbar we replaced. And she is correct.

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Re:You don't know how bad most things are nor precisely how ... by nyanpasu64 on Friday August 23, 2024 @04:51PM (#41332992)

Could you disable Bluetooth and buy an external Bluetooth receiver that outputs analog audio?

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Re:You don't know how bad most things are nor precisely how ... by bsder on Friday August 23, 2024 @08:39PM (#41334486)

Alas, no. You couldn't disable Bluetooth completely. As soon as it "woke up" from any "sleep", Bluetooth would always reenable itself even though I always had the optic fibre cable plugged in.

Probably the only thing I could have done was cover it in aluminum foil. I thought about just opening it up and tearing out the antenna, but the casing was an injection molded piece with integrated clips. It would break on opening and not be possible to put back together.

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