"Here's a little aside you'll no doubt
find amusing ... Got in this afternoon, and number 2 daughter was doing
some
door painting for us in the house, and had MTV on. At pretty near full
volume, shaking the house ...

Tonight, I'm watching some TV, and the sound is 'wrong'. A bit quiet,
and
slightly 'thin' sounding. Then some incidental music came on the
programme,
and it had a very odd 'raspy' sort of a sound to the bass beat. Then I
realised what is wrong. She's only gone and buggered the TV set's built
in
sub. Bloody kids.

Mine has his own gear but I did once come home to a house with
rattling windows from the 5.1 system in the tv room. Luckily I like it
loud myself and have 4 Infinity towers, a dual 5.25 center and floor
firing 150 WRMS Kenwood 12" sub thats virtually indestructable
after replacing the stock 12 with a Cerwin Vega 12 sporting a 3" voice
coil

Who needs 'em ?

Hopefully they were at least fun to make.

I guess they probably were ... :-)

The sub in the TV is built into the stand. This is a hulking great Tosh
CRT
set, remember. I seem to recall that it is a separate box, before it gets
screwed into the stand, but I can't remember whether it's screwed from the
top, under the TV, or from the sides. I seem to think that it has its own
set of wires going to output sockets on the the back of the TV though, so
maybe I will finish up just disconnecting it, and shoving another sub on
there, hidden behind the TV. I've currently got it shut off in software.
Leaves me with bloody awful sound, but at least no rattly rasp ...

Arfa


I can't recall ever using the int speakers on my Pana 51". The
speakers on my bedroom set a now defunct Olevia are **** poor and
that's a good review. I hooked a Logitech 5.1 set of pc speakers to it
to cure that problem. One problem I have from the tv audio is when the
display is set to dark or medium room I get a 400hz tone from the
sets audio. It's barely there but annoying. Must be from the circuit
that cuts the voltage down on the CFLs somehow getting into the audio.
**** it I'm not going to worry about it because I watch it
at full power, just have to turn a light on in the room.

The sound is actually quite good on the Tosh. I don't watch a lot of films
or 'big sound' drama, so I've never really bothered with 5.1 amps and the
like. The set has built in Pro Logic surround, with external rear surround
speakers. Good enough for what I want it for.

Anyways, bit of a result today, with any luck. I was on the phone to a mate
at a shop that I do work for, and happened to mention it to him. Apparently,
the sub is located inside the TV's back cover, and the box facing forward in
the stand, is in fact the 'centre' speaker for the surround. Obvious now I
think about it ... So, seems that he has a scrapper at the shop, and he says
that I am welcome to the sub out of it, so I'll pick it up when I'm in there
on Friday :-)

Arfa