Keith G said...

You are also not wrong about the silly big sound/small image imbalance - is
why my preferred (normal) viewing is a big sound with a 6 foot wide image!!

Not sure if I agree about it being silly, for about a month I've been
trying precisely that: 28" screen and 10 feet wide sound.
http://www.btinternet.com/~unsteadyk.../nettocam.html
I did have the speakers as close as possible to the TV before.
The new arrangement work quite well for both TV and music.

And the voices *always* come straight out of their mouths!!

Ditto here, but "noises off" are most obviously way off over there.

I've also been investigating the "Auto Volume" feature on the TV,
basically it is a compander, lifting low level and suppressing loud
sounds. It's very heavy handed and the effect on music is laughable but
it works well on some programs for late night listening.On speech radio
everybodytalks in a subdued monotone, rather like effect of the very
low bit depth digital radio which I did a lot of listening to in the
70's.
http://jproc.ca/crypto/bid150.html

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Ken O'Meara
http://www.btinternet.com/~unsteadyken/