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Desire to improve the sound of a flat panel TV, particularly in the low-frequency range, emerges frequently immediately after its placing and the first turning on. Active one-piece speaker systems named soundbars will help to solve this problem.

A word «soundbar» can be translated as a «sound stripe», «sound bar» or even «sound horizontal bar» – it is possible even to write jokes for this subject. Anyway, the sense does not change due to this. Actually, the soundbar is a cross between TV loudspeakers and large speaker systems for home theatres composed of 5-6 speakers. After adding such a device to your TV-set you will get high quality and surrounding sounding of movies, and in this case, you do away with a necessity to drill walls, lift plinths and break your head how to place satellites.

SVEN MS-300 turned out to be very successful set of a speaker system with additional functions. Actually, for $40 we buy a musical center of full value with radio, MP3, support of USB drives and memory cards, without compromises regarding sounding. Manufacturing quality makes us glad too, the times of cheap plastic and MDF with peelable film have passed. Do not try to substitute a home theatre of full value with the help of 2.1 speaker system – and it will make you happy for many years. As log as engineers will not find a method to build in any “delicacy” into a speaker system.

Power automatic voltage regulators are not constant guests in 3DNews editorial office, but just that fact became one of reasons for more thorough attitude to the test process of a novelty AVR-2000 LCD from SVEN Finnish Company. It must be noted that for a long time this producer’s product line comprises the great number of versions of regulators with different load characteristics. The abbreviation LCD in the model name means the presence of a digital multisegmental level indicator of input and output voltages, but at retail you can find another version – with classic “pointers”. The AVR series comprises models with indexes from 500 to 5000; in practice it means the maximum sustained power from 400 W to 4 kW.

Speaker systems in the form of so-called "soundbar" – the system with the horizontally oriented location of speakers in one case with the amplifier and control system – can be named, perhaps, the latest tendency of designer thought in development of sound reproducing devices. First soundbars appeared at the market several years ago; however until now producers continue to experiment with form-factors, the number of channels and speakers and different additional functionality in the search of the golden mean for every price bracket.