Projectors Reviews, price and comparision

Most are just sound bars: long, straight speakers you can mount (or) your HDTV get better sound as what speakers from pump to your TV. Despite what she might say marketing material, but many can offer no true surround sound, and not the performance of dedicated home theater system can match. Vizio's $389.99 (direct) VHT510 surround sound home theatre stands out as an exception. Through a clever offers in addition to the standard sound bar formula the VHT510 true 5.1 channel-sound. The sound bar itself limited the peripheral Imaging in the front channels, but the rear satellites give a sense of depth and space that other sound bars cannot reach the system.

Vizio adds two rear channel speakers and a wireless subwoofer on the sound bar mix, give a full 5.1-Kanal-sound-System. The rear satellite link to the subwoofer, which in turn communicates with the sound bar with 2.4 GHz radio signals, offer a maximum range of 60 meters. It is a clever way, enable rear channels without cable from the sound bar/receiver/home theater components over the length of the room.

Design
The most important sound bar 4.5 40 4.3 inches (HWD) and weighs 7.8 pounds, so it is ideal for between 38 and 42-inch HDTVs. You can work just fine with larger sets, but its length is matched with screens in the 40-inch range. The subwoofer 13 of 11.2 11.9 inches measures and weighs almost twice as much as the sound bar at 14.6 pounds. The two satellites measure a modest 7.5 of 2,9 11.9 inches and weighing 1.6 pounds. Multiple screw and hook mounting holes make it easy to mount on the wall the speaker or is, and the metal feet on the sound bar shot and mounting hardware with a twist of two screws can be converted.

A soft black grille covers the front of the sound bar, hiding their two 3-inch and two 2, 75-inch drivers. Protection for its sit two 0.75 inches tall by the cloth Grill uncovered but by a circular, at both ends of the bar, and a metal rectangle with the Vizio logo and a few indicator lights sit in the middle of the bar. If these lamps are the most important lights on the sound bar, but not; a line under the metal rectangle, serve with blue LEDs hidden behind the grille, as a principal display, light up to show volume and balance the levels and input modes. The satellites and subwoofer use a similar design with the sound bar: vertical semi cylinders with soft black grid and, in the case of the satellite, the same disk grilling 0.75 inch tweeter.

The back of the sound bar has audio set of optical and stereo RCA audio inputs, plus the power connector and a switch to client/hub mode for the use of the sound bar with subwoofer several or other wireless devices. It lacks a 3.5 mm AUX input, d. h., if you specifically buy the iPod accessory dock, you can not simply plug your iPod or your smartphone into the system. The Insignia NS-BAR-A home theater Soundbar ($ 199.99, 2.5 star) costs slightly more than half as much as the VHT510 and it has a 3.5 mm input, but the wireless subwoofer and missing rear channel satellite. For a ton of input options at a premium price on the Samsung HT-D400 ($ 499.99, four-star) accept two HDMI (by mini-HDMI), two optical audio connections, an analog audio jack 3.5 mm, and it can be used as a video passthrough to your HDTV via HDMI, so that it as a simple A / V receiver/switch. While the HT D400 contains wireless subwoofer, it back is not the dedicated channel satellite.

The bundled 4.4 inch long, 2-inch-wide remote is rounded and easy to access, and makes, mute, volume and play/backward/fast contains forward playback controls. But advanced controls, including input selection between stereo line-in, optical audio and iPod, Studio sound switches to TruVolume SRS and the SRS and individual volume/Equalizer controls for the subwoofer, bass, treble, exposes a hidden slide down panel Center and rear channels. It's a smart design, but it would be even more helpful with the input selection button on the main panel of the remote access and not hidden. Of course the iPod input is effectively the same as the stereo line-in input with an optional dock and for the most used home theater that will you the system you put on optical-in from the HDTV to keep, it is not an important issue.

Performance
While it not provide the kick of a home theater with large, dedicated middle left/right satellite, carried out the VHT510 in our laboratory tests. Thanks to the subwoofer and rear satellites, the system offered has the most sound bars both satisfying bass and lack real surround sound. I loaded RoboCop from the RoboCop trilogy Blu-ray box set and saw some scenes of violence. Dialog box sound clear music swelled adequately, and explosions have a good amount of boost of the subwoofer by you give them a feeling of depth and impact. During the shootout in the drug factory all the action sound quite good and the rear satellites projected fantastic gun shots and Ricochet, give the entire scene an immersive atmosphere usually only with true 5.1-Kanal-sound-Systemen is one.

I played our test suite to test the low end stand, the knife bass-heavy "silent shout." The thumping bass popped thanks to the subwoofer, sending booming synth errors out all about the lab through the doors of our closed home theater test area. The sound bar even rate not quite as good, distort and hollow sounding. the crossover point between the sound bar speaker and subwoofer seemed too low the bar, thus tried to reach the low frequency subwoofer was best suited for that in the high end. Still, stretches much power is impressive, and if the melody, sound bar both kicked of the satellite as also agreed.

The sound system is not perfect, however. Being the main component of a 40-inch sound bar, the left, Center and right channel, is its front Imaging limited. While it is ideal for 40-inch HDTVs, you have a very large home theater that feel sense of space of the sound bar produced more narrower than the image on the screen. The satellite also feel a bit weak motorized, dealing with the high frequency large but lacks the mid range punch the main bar sound produced.

Under the current crop of the sound bar sound systems Vizio's VHT510 considered one only a few of these offers real surround sound and not only acoustic reflection. Makes for less than $400, which alone a great choice, by the fact that it sounds is great and is easy to set up an attractive sound bar, but if you are ready, to victims lighter rear channels for a smaller,-speakers dedicated to improved, you may want to check the Samsung HT-D400. At $500, the Samsung system will cost more, and no true pair of rear channels, but it is a shiny, thin device, which still produces fixed audio and can be used as a two device a serve / V receiver/switch.