Television Speakers

I rarely, if ever, give a crap about what other people spend their money on. It's their money, they should be able to waste it in whatever manner they see fit. However, I have a serious problem with reviews of televisions I see plastered all over the internet, namely regarding speakers. If you're buying a television, the last thing on your mind should be how good the speakers sound when watching movies or 5.1 surround sound or listening to music or whatever the fuck. Okay, look, television speakers exist to produce sound, and are manufactured in such a way as to give the best possible listening experience for dialogue. This means tv speakers are ideal for the Discovery channel, PBS, NBC Nightly News and a lot of stupid sitcoms. They are completely unideal for anything else, meaning if you listen to cable radio through your tv speakers, it will probably sound like shit. What is so fucking difficult to understand about this? I'm by no means an audiophile, but some of the "home theatre" setups I've seen are laughable. $50 speaker system with a $20 Walmart radio/cd-player combo. You really think that sounds good? Fuck no, it does not. Back to the televisions, seriously, stop rating lower simply because the speakers are only "adequate" for music. Adequate? Holy fuck, adequate for music is about a billion times better than I'd ever expect out of a television because my expectation is "sounds like ass". It's really not THAT expensive to get a decent setup, either. If you're dropping $1500 on a new 52" LCD, why not spend another grand on a decent receiver and some low-end speakers? Hell, get a smaller tv, maybe 46", spend the cash you saved on a decent Denon or Onkyo or Yamaha setup. Those are inexpensive consumer-grade systems that will sound pretty good for 99% of the people. I'm never going to advocate $20k+ setups unless you are rich and/or doing studio work, but hooking up a fucking clock radio to your television and claiming it's DTS/Dolby/THX/Fuckyamomz is ludicrous.

In short, buy a real fucking stereo and stop bitching about irrelevant shit.