3 Ways to Improve Audio Dialog on Your TV

You just bought that brand new 50 inch state of the art LED TV. The picture is fantastic and it includes all the newest Smart TV features. You get it home, plug it in and go through all the set up in the manual. You turn it on to watch one of your favorite shows or movies. The picture looks wonderful, but the sound is awful. The audio is garbled and the dialog is virtually impossible to make out. After fiddling with all the built-in audio settings you finally give up and either take it back or decide to live with it.

There are alternatives, some cheap and some not so cheap, which I will discuss in a bit but first, let's take a look at the root cause of the problem.

Why is TV Audio so bad

There are 4 main reasons for bad audio quality on today's TVs. Most of these have to do with what makes these TVs attractive in the first place. One of the marvels of today's LED TVs is how thin and light weight they are. Can you imagine hanging a 50in CRT TV on the wall? However, the thinness of the TV forces some major compromises in the quality and design of the speaker subsystem.

Small Speakers

First, the speakers are much smaller in today's TVs than in the older CRT TVs. The elements are