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Benny
I've been shopping for a new speaker system and I was just wondering how big of a difference there is between a 5.1 speaker system or a sound bar?
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That really depends on the quality of each but in general a sound bar isn't a good way to go. In order for the simulated surround to work you need side walls so if you are in a room that opens into another room leaving no side wall on one or both sides then it's not going to work. To get the simulated surround they create off axis lobes of sound that bounce off the walls creating the illusion of rear speakers so without those walls to bounce off they simply don't work.
Generally sound bars are low profile but this requires them to use very small drivers. Small drivers can make for a good speaker if you use enough of them but it takes a lot. Some large line arrays will use a large quantity of small drivers with very good results but the typical sound bar doesn't use enough. Also, no single channel uses all of them, they are used in groups to get the desired effect. If you were to opt for a full 5.1 or 7.1 surround system and went too cheap, it may also use only a few very small drivers and thus not perform much if any better than a sound bar so going full surround is not an automatic improvement.
Full surround does offer more possibilities. In fact the possibilities are endless. With a full surround system you can do what ever you want, use as big a speakers as you want, as big a amplifier as you want etc. You can make a system that will blow your local I-Max theatre out of the water if you are willing to make the investment to do it. This kind of option is not available with a sound bar.
mk
That really depends on the quality of each but in general a sound bar isn't a good way to go. In order for the simulated surround to work you need side walls so if you are in a room that opens into another room leaving no side wall on one or both sides then it's not going to work. To get the simulated surround they create off axis lobes of sound that bounce off the walls creating the illusion of rear speakers so without those walls to bounce off they simply don't work.
Generally sound bars are low profile but this requires them to use very small drivers. Small drivers can make for a good speaker if you use enough of them but it takes a lot. Some large line arrays will use a large quantity of small drivers with very good results but the typical sound bar doesn't use enough. Also, no single channel uses all of them, they are used in groups to get the desired effect. If you were to opt for a full 5.1 or 7.1 surround system and went too cheap, it may also use only a few very small drivers and thus not perform much if any better than a sound bar so going full surround is not an automatic improvement.
Full surround does offer more possibilities. In fact the possibilities are endless. With a full surround system you can do what ever you want, use as big a speakers as you want, as big a amplifier as you want etc. You can make a system that will blow your local I-Max theatre out of the water if you are willing to make the investment to do it. This kind of option is not available with a sound bar.
mk
How to put together something with speakers.?
alex
I have salvaged a few drivers from my old defunct 2.1 speaker system. What can I do to make them useful? Just solder them to an input jack for portable speakers? Make an amplifier and plug them into that? Something unorthodox? Suggestions and details please.
P.S
I salvaged the wire and a couple caps.
Answer
Unless you have the entire circuity the speakers are of not much use.
Unless you have the entire circuity the speakers are of not much use.
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