Scott joins Leo to help Doug from Albuquerque, NM figure out what TV to buy. Scott says that the "spousal acceptance factor" is high on big flat screens, but not on speakers all over the house. So for Doug, a soundbar is probably best. As for the TV, Doug's living room is in a bright area, with plenty of windows, so Scott says an LED LCD TV is going to be the best option.
Jonathan wants to link a Bluetooth speaker to his TV. Leo says the problem he's going to run into is latency, as the sound goes out of sync. Bose uses RF and it works quite well, but it's not cheap. The Bose SoundLink could be pretty good, but Leo says he'll have to be sure it's designed for AV, and he doesn't think they are. It's music only.
Chuck wants to know if he can listen to Leo's show on the Amazon Echo. Leo says yes, but he'll have ask it to listen via TuneIn. Chuck also wants to know if his Mitsubishi rear projection TV can hook up to his Sonos and also play through wireless headphones? Leo says that because of the age, it probably can't play both streams at the same time. If it could, it would have competing volumes.
Steve has a sound bar and wants to boost the center channel. Leo says that he would have to have Dolby 5.1 to be able to do that, and Scott Wilkinson recommends the Andrew Jones 5.1 sound bar from Pioneer. But if it's 2.1, he shouldn't get it because he won't be able to do what he wants with just "simulated" surround sound.
Mike bought the Yamaha YAS 101 sound bar and he really enjoys it.
Mike called in yesterday about IR issues and took Scott's advice to get a different soundbar model that has IR pass through. But the Yamaha model doesn't work with his HDTV, and Yamaha says that sometimes it doesn't (shame they don't advertise it). So he went to monoprice.com, as Leo suggested, to get an IR repeater. Leo says that MonoPrice is a great resource with low prices and great quality.
Mike has a Vizio VHT215 Sound bar, but it blocks the infrared receiver of his Bravia HDTV. Leo says the fault isn't really with the designs, but that Mike needs to raise the TV up a bit.
It doesn't matter, the sound will be the same either way because they're both digital. He'll just want to be sure he's getting the Dolby 5.1 signal into the sound bar properly.
