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Low sibilance TV

electricspark

Hi.  I was diagnosed with Asperger’s about five years ago when I developed (among many other things!) as intense dislike of sibilance.

When I have to use a TV, I have been dealing with this by turning the treble control to minimum on our fairly old TV.  When my wife and I stay away from home I have noticed that hotel TV’s have huge levels of sibilance, probably as they are newer than our TV.

My wife wants to get a new TV in the sales and I am dreading it as I anticipate having to leave the room each time she wants to use it due to the awful sound.  It’s difficult to discuss with her as I get told to ‘deal with it’ and usually an argument develops.

Has anyone else with this problem found any solutions and can anyone suggest a make/model of TV with low levels of sibilance?

Many thanks in anticipation.

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  • Hi Electricspark

    This past year my new obsessional interest has been in music and hi-fi, and there are many aspects to sibilance.

    Tvs are poor for sound quality these days, although I have got good results from my 5 year old sony bravia 40nx803. Sound quality was really bad out of the box, but I played around in audio settings, and there was one of these wizzy virtual surround sound options, and I set it up. I didn't get any real feeling of surround, but the quality of the sound improved massively. Very acceptable for tv viewing, I am very critical on sound quality. I don't know if newer sony models will sound ok.

    There can be many causes of the sibilance, you are not going to remove it completely, as naturally the sibilance sound occurs. A guy at work has  a speech impediment, and the sibilance around his S sounds are really pronounced.

    It is very difficult for a microphone to record these sounds, and the resulting recording can replicate the sound, but in a much dryer sound. This then gets exagerated as audio circuits are designed to give a very detailed sound, the raw edge of a guitar pluck. High compression adds to this with poor mixing when the sound engineer just maxes out the channel levels to make it sound "better" on the tinny mobile phone playback.

    Just realised I am ranting on about this, sound bars can improve the sound, but can block the remote control sensor, my dad bought a sound base which sits under the tv sound.

    Whatever you choose, best to try and hear it for yourself in a store, not ideal as it does not replicate your living room, and try and play around with audio settings. Take a look at the sony tvs, I have always been impressed with audio quality of sony products through the years

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  • Hi Electricspark

    This past year my new obsessional interest has been in music and hi-fi, and there are many aspects to sibilance.

    Tvs are poor for sound quality these days, although I have got good results from my 5 year old sony bravia 40nx803. Sound quality was really bad out of the box, but I played around in audio settings, and there was one of these wizzy virtual surround sound options, and I set it up. I didn't get any real feeling of surround, but the quality of the sound improved massively. Very acceptable for tv viewing, I am very critical on sound quality. I don't know if newer sony models will sound ok.

    There can be many causes of the sibilance, you are not going to remove it completely, as naturally the sibilance sound occurs. A guy at work has  a speech impediment, and the sibilance around his S sounds are really pronounced.

    It is very difficult for a microphone to record these sounds, and the resulting recording can replicate the sound, but in a much dryer sound. This then gets exagerated as audio circuits are designed to give a very detailed sound, the raw edge of a guitar pluck. High compression adds to this with poor mixing when the sound engineer just maxes out the channel levels to make it sound "better" on the tinny mobile phone playback.

    Just realised I am ranting on about this, sound bars can improve the sound, but can block the remote control sensor, my dad bought a sound base which sits under the tv sound.

    Whatever you choose, best to try and hear it for yourself in a store, not ideal as it does not replicate your living room, and try and play around with audio settings. Take a look at the sony tvs, I have always been impressed with audio quality of sony products through the years

    Random

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