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mukiha
#11 Posted : Friday, November 30, 2012 6:04:28 PM
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Layman wrote:
Now this sound problem, The TV Volume has to be fuuuuuuuull paka mmwisho yawa. What is the solution. Smart TV was worse you could have full volume and still hear whispers, ZUKU is not an exemption near full volume and still just whispers, Star times is almost like Smart TV (it collapsed) full volume and almost zero sound, how is sound quality for GO Tv.
The problem with StarTimes is not LOUDNESS; it is CLARITY. It sounds like those old movies made in the 1960s and 50s!
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maka
#12 Posted : Friday, November 30, 2012 7:07:15 PM
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mukiha wrote:
Layman wrote:
Now this sound problem, The TV Volume has to be fuuuuuuuull paka mmwisho yawa. What is the solution. Smart TV was worse you could have full volume and still hear whispers, ZUKU is not an exemption near full volume and still just whispers, Star times is almost like Smart TV (it collapsed) full volume and almost zero sound, how is sound quality for GO Tv.
The problem with StarTimes is not LOUDNESS; it is CLARITY. It sounds like those old movies made in the 1960s and 50s!
...i thought such things can be sorted out from the production house,let them know whats happening...for how long has DSTV be around again?the competition at some point will catch up
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radio
#13 Posted : Friday, November 30, 2012 7:22:23 PM
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mukiha wrote:
I hooked up yesterday and... The picture is crystal clear...but... The sound is BAD; very bad - bordering on HORRIBLE; especially because it is a digital transmission... And before some one suggest it, I have hooked it up to my Marantz PM4200 stereo amp and out through the Mission M71 speakers [via IXOS interconnects and speaker cables all with gold plugs]; In other words, I listen through a fairly good sound system.
True the picture is clear but I almost never bought it when I sampled with their StarTimes TVs at their store. Those TVs are bogus. For the sound, you have to put the decoders to max and then use the TVs volume too! I hope they read this feedback from customers. I am waiting to see how timely payment takes effect. And why did they tell me I can't access the supposedly free-to-air channels if I don't pay?
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essyk
#14 Posted : Friday, November 30, 2012 7:42:22 PM
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radio wrote:
mukiha wrote:
I hooked up yesterday and... The picture is crystal clear...but... The sound is BAD; very bad - bordering on HORRIBLE; especially because it is a digital transmission... And before some one suggest it, I have hooked it up to my Marantz PM4200 stereo amp and out through the Mission M71 speakers [via IXOS interconnects and speaker cables all with gold plugs]; In other words, I listen through a fairly good sound system.
True the picture is clear but I almost never bought it when I sampled with their StarTimes TVs at their store. Those TVs are bogus. For the sound, you have to put the decoders to max and then use the TVs volume too! I hope they read this feedback from customers. I am waiting to see how timely payment takes effect. And why did they tell me I can't access the supposedly free-to-air channels if I don't pay?
True.I use the tv volume as well. I find it fine and the great thing is,I dont have an outside ariel!! all channels are crystal clear with the inside tv ariel not the decoder ariel. But I apart from discovery? i dnt really bother.
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mukiha
#15 Posted : Friday, November 30, 2012 8:59:40 PM
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radio wrote:
mukiha wrote:
I hooked up yesterday and... The picture is crystal clear...but... The sound is BAD; very bad - bordering on HORRIBLE; especially because it is a digital transmission... And before some one suggest it, I have hooked it up to my Marantz PM4200 stereo amp and out through the Mission M71 speakers [via IXOS interconnects and speaker cables all with gold plugs]; In other words, I listen through a fairly good sound system.
True the picture is clear but I almost never bought it when I sampled with their StarTimes TVs at their store. Those TVs are bogus. For the sound, you have to put the decoders to max and then use the TVs volume too! I hope they read this feedback from customers. I am waiting to see how timely payment takes effect. And why did they tell me I can't access the supposedly free-to-air channels if I don't pay?
I will repeat this 100 times if necessary: it is NOT the VOLUME I have a problem with. It is the CLARITY!!!!! The volume is OK, but their sound is like that of the 1960s and 50s
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Njung'e
#16 Posted : Friday, November 30, 2012 9:07:04 PM
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I share your pain @ Muthee.....but ain't many here who watched "FaKshuo firims"Pray
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Much Know
#17 Posted : Friday, November 30, 2012 9:29:10 PM
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Mzee! You really know how to 'listen' eho? Hiyo marantz set up? Ama uko NSIS?
Ras Kienyeji Man
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sentinel prime
#18 Posted : Friday, November 30, 2012 10:13:58 PM
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what mukiha means is that the sound has "no depth " ie its not even 2.0 dolby stereo(20khz-20hz)sound.....I thought it should have been 5.1 capable .terrestrial digital pictures are even worse than uhf cause of compression but sound should be mp3 128 bit quality. I believe they have poor equipment ...hata unjiru TV sounds like that after all he uses sufurias for transmission :).
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mukiha
#19 Posted : Saturday, December 01, 2012 12:16:39 PM
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Much Know wrote:
Mzee! You really know how to 'listen' eho? Hiyo marantz set up? Ama uko NSIS?
NSIS??????? NO! Just a normal home hi-fi kit... but not one of those dreadful 10,000W lousy "boom-boxes". This is one is only 30W per channel...and the Missions produce 88db/W... while the Ixos cable are made from pure crystal oxygen-free copper...
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Much Know
#20 Posted : Saturday, December 01, 2012 4:44:14 PM
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Thanks for the sound set up ideas. I will be putting quite a lot into sound soon.
Ras Kienyeji Man
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