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Sound bars make for easy listening.(LAB TESTS)(Product/service evaluation)(Brief article)
Watching a good big-screen TV is a treat for the eyes, but even the priciest set can't fully convey the digital multichannel sound that adds so much to DVD movies and HDTV shows. That takes a surround-sound system, which usually means hooking up a receiver and multiple speakers, and running wires all over the room.
There's an easier compromise: "sound bar" speakers, which house an array of small speakers in one enclosure that sits unobtrusively above or below a television. Most sound bars have all the audio and video connections you'll need, plus amplification, so you don't need a receiver. Here are two that did well in our recent tests:
High style, high price. The Marantz ES7001 SSX simulates surround sound, with six speakers, digital amplifiers, and sophisticated processing circuitry in a stylish aluminum enclosure 42.5 ...
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