Here's How to Make Your TV Sound Better (for Free)
Key takeaways
- They're not just bad, but even with most of the best TVs, they're facing the wrong way: backward.
- There's no setting that will magically transform your TV's audio into movie theater sound.
- TV manufacturers know that bad sound is one of the biggest complaints people have about modern TVs.
All TV speakers are bad. They're not just bad, but even with most of the best TVs, they're facing the wrong way: backward. While there are some TVs with front-facing or behind-the-screen speakers, even these don't sound great. Not only does this mean lifeless, boring sound quality, but it can also make dialogue hard to understand, especially when there's a lot of other audio. As TVs get thinner and thinner, one casualty is increasingly mediocre audio performance.
There's no setting that will magically transform your TV's audio into movie theater sound. Physics is at play, and the tiny speakers in skinny modern TVs just can't create quality audio. However, there are some settings and other tricks that might help.
TV manufacturers know that bad sound is one of the biggest complaints people have about modern TVs. They've added audio processing features -- some good, some bad -- to many TVs. Again, there's only so much they can do, but they can help.