Go back over What Hi-Fi? television reviews this century – at any rate reviews for what used to be called “flat-panel” sets – and you will see a common theme recurring. No matter how good an image it may be capable of providing, pretty much any modern TV fails to back up those brilliant pictures with anything approaching stunning sound. And, please note, we would be happy to accept fairly basic sound here. Just decent stereo would be acceptable; we’re not getting into any discussions about surround sound or (hey, let’s not get carried away…) Dolby Atmos.
All that beautiful screen acreage, though, really does deserve sonic accompaniment to match – especially now that it has become acceptable in our living rooms to have sets with screens more than four times the area of an old 32-inch “large-screen” CRT TV.
