--- author: New York Times Podcasts date: '2026-10-16' guest: '' layout: post.njk source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpYzAIbj1eY speaker: New York Times Podcasts tags: - soundbar - audio-testing - home-theater - consumer-electronics - audio-engineering title: 拯救电视糟糕音质：回音壁选购全指南与四十年音频评测经验谈 summary: 本期节目聚焦现代轻薄电视由于物理体积受限导致的对白不清与音质劣化痛点，由在音频行业深耕近四十年且即将退休的资深评测编辑布伦特·巴特沃斯全面解析回音壁的工作原理、选购核心关注点（人声增强与低音炮）、测试参考片单（《U-571》《现代启示录》），并推荐了从百元高性价比到千元旗舰级的主流优秀型号。 insight: '' draft: true series: '' category: tech-trends area: tech-engineering project: [] people: - Brent Butterworth companies_orgs: - The New York Times - Wirecutter products_models: - TCL S55H - Vizio Elevate 7.1.4 Pro - Samsung HW-Q990D - Bose Smart Ultra Soundbar media_books: [] status: evergreen --- ### 节目开场与嘉宾介绍 **凯拉·布莱克威尔**: 我是**凯拉·布莱克威尔**（Kyra Blackwell）。
Original English **Kyra Blackwell**: I'm Kyra Blackwell.
**罗茜·加林**: 我是**罗茜·加林**（Rosie Garin）。欢迎收听《**Wirecutter Show**》。
Original English **Rosie Garin**: I'm Rosie Garin. And you're listening to the Wire Cutter Show. [music]
**罗茜·加林**: 嗨，凯拉。
Original English **Rosie Garin**: Hi, Kyra.
**凯拉·布莱克威尔**: 嗨。
Original English **Kyra Blackwell**: Hi.
**罗茜·加林**: 我们今天要聊一个我知道你肯定会感兴趣的话题，因为你是个音乐爱好者。话说，你觉得自己算得上是一个**发烧友**（audiophile）吗？
Original English **Rosie Garin**: We are talking about something I know you'll be interested in because you are a music lover. Are you also would you say you're an audio file?
**凯拉·布莱克威尔**: 我觉得我还配不上这个称号。他们懂的太多了，而我懂得很少。
Original English **Kyra Blackwell**: I don't think I can live up to that status. They they know a lot and I know very little.
**罗茜·加林**: 好吧，今天我们要聊的是家庭音频系统的一个重要组成部分，我们之前也讨论过这个话题——我们曾做过一期关于扬声器的节目。而今天我们要聊的是**回音壁**（Soundbar）。你对回音壁有所研究吗？
Original English **Rosie Garin**: Well, today we're talking about a component of an atome audio setup and we have discussed this before. We did an episode on speakers. Today we're talking about sound bars. Are you read up on sound bars?
**凯拉·布莱克威尔**: 其实没有。我承认自己确实喜欢出色的音响配置。再说一次，我不懂那些技术细节，但我一听就能分辨出好坏。但我对回音壁确实了解不多。很多年前，在进入 Wirecutter 之前我就买过一个，所以当时没看我们的评测指南，结果我讨厌死它了。那次体验太令人失望了。我本以为它能提升我的音频系统，让我不用花钱买一堆不同的音箱，结果它的声音奇差无比，满是静电杂音，而且我几乎都没法让它正常工作。所以，因为我刚买了一台新电视，实在受不了它的音质，最近我一直在考虑要不要再买一个回音壁。但我真的不知道该选哪一款。我觉得现在的回音壁应该比以前好多了。
Original English **Kyra Blackwell**: I'm not actually. I will admit that I do love a great audio setup. Again, I don't know all the technicalities, but I know when I hear it like, you know, but I I actually don't know much about sound bars. I bought one years ago pre-wire cutter days, so I didn't check the guides, and I hated it. It was so disappointing. I thought that it would boost my sound system without me having to pay for a bunch of different speakers, and it sounded terrible and staticky, and I could barely get it to work. So, I have been considering buying another one cuz I just got a new TV and I just can't stand the sound quality of that. But I just I don't really know where to go. I think they've gotten a lot better.
**罗茜·加林**: 今天的嘉宾比任何人都清楚这一点。**布伦特·巴特沃斯**（Brent Butterworth），他不仅会给你提出建议，还将带领我们深入了解回音壁的世界。他是 **Wirecutter** 的资深撰稿人，专门负责音频设备的评测。他曾为全球一些顶级的音视频和科技公司担任过产品设计师和测试顾问。他是音频领域当之无愧的元老老将。天呐，关于布伦特还能说什么呢？他还在一支摇滚乐队里，那支乐队叫 Rey。
Original English **Rosie Garin**: Today's guests would know better than anyone. Brent Butterworth, he is going to be the guy to advise you, but also to lead us through the world of sound bars. He's a writer here at Wire Cutter. He covers audio gear. He has worked as a product designer, testing consultant for some of the world's [music] largest audio and video and tech companies. He is a veteran in the field of audio. Gosh, what else to say about Brent? He's in a rock band. He's in a band called Rey.
**凯拉·布莱克威尔**: 他还加入了一个爵士乐队呢。
Original English **Kyra Blackwell**: He's in a jazz group. [music]
**罗茜·加林**: 是的，他掌握着极其丰富的专业知识，评测和测试音频设备已经超过 **35 年**了。布伦特，欢迎回到我们的节目！
Original English **Rosie Garin**: Y he's a wealth of knowledge and he's been reviewing and testing audio gear for over 35 [music] years. Brent, welcome back to the show.
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: 谢谢再次邀请我。
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: Thanks for having me on again.
### 现代电视音质为何如此糟糕 **凯拉·布莱克威尔**: 如今的电视扬声器音质真的很差很差。布伦特，我相信你肯定知道这点。而我刚刚才切身体会到，因为我最近刚在 **Costco** 买了一台全新的 60 多英寸电视，大概花了 **400 美元**。
Original English **Kyra Blackwell**: TV speakers these days are really, really bad. Brent, I'm sure you know this. I am just finding this out because I recently bought a brand new $400, like 60some inch TV from Costco.
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: 我的天呐。
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: Good heavens.
**凯拉·布莱克威尔**: 我知道。我当时想，这屏幕这么大，所以我原本以为声音应该还可以。布伦特，我现在每次打开这台电视，音量至少得开到 80，因为我根本听不清任何声音。
Original English **Kyra Blackwell**: I know. I was like, it's huge. So, I was expecting the sound to be okay. Brent, my sound is probably minimum at 80 every [clears throat] single time I turn this TV on cuz I can't hear anything.
**罗茜·加林**: 体验确实太糟糕了。比如到了对白部分，角色们就像在窃窃私语；而一旦出现爆炸场面，声音又震耳欲聋，吵得要命。我感觉现在不管你的电视有多大、有多贵，音质很烂似乎已经成了一个既成事实。其实听到大家这么说我心里还挺欣慰的，因为我现在看母语节目都得开**字幕**了，我还以为是自己真的老了听力下降。但现在既然可以把责任推给扬声器，我感觉好受多了。
Original English **Rosie Garin**: It's awful. Like when it's dialogue, they're whispering. And when there's an explosion, it's loud as anything I've ever heard. And I just feel like no matter how big or expensive your TV is, it's kind of a given now that the sound quality is just going to be trash. I'm actually, this is very comforting to hear because I'm now subtitles even my native language and I thought that would meant that I was really getting older. But now that I can blame the speakers, I feel a lot better.
**凯拉·布莱克威尔**: 你永远可以怪罪扬声器。布伦特，为什么会变成这样？快告诉我们吧。
Original English **Kyra Blackwell**: You can always blame the speakers. Why is it like this, Brent? Tell us.
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: 因为我们为这些轻薄漂亮的电视付出了代价。过去那种厚重的老式电视有足够的空间容纳大型扬声器。
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: Because we pay a price for these nice thin TVs. The old fat TVs have room for big speakers.
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: 而现在这些厚度只有大概 1 英寸的轻薄电视，根本没有足够的物理空间塞进一个像样的扬声器。正如音频界常说的那样，**扬声器必须通过推动空气来发声**。事实正是如此，扬声器尺寸越大，能够推动的空气就越多。而这些现代电视内部的扬声器直径通常只有大约 **1 英寸**，而且被安置在一个薄薄的塑料或金属外壳内，震动非常严重。对于音响系统来说，这是一个极度糟糕的环境，但工程师们只能在这个空间里想办法，因为消费者希望他们的电视只有 1 英寸厚。
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: And these little thin ones that are like an inch thick or something don't have enough space to put a decent speaker in there. And you know, as they say in the audio world, speakers have to move air. And they do. And you know, you got to have a the bigger the speaker, the more air it can move. And so the speakers in these things typically tend to be about an inch in diameter and you know they're in a little thin kind of plastic metal cabinet that kind of vibrates and it's a terrible place to put a sound system but that's what they have to work with because people want their TVs to be an inch thick.
**凯拉·布莱克威尔**: 你这话真让我回想起了我祖母以前的老电视，大概有 55 英寸，直接摆在地板上，厚度可能有 6 英尺深。在那台电视上播《我们的日子》（Days of Our Lives），声音在四分之一英里外都能听得一清二楚！
Original English **Kyra Blackwell**: I'll tell you what, you're reminding me of my grandmother's old TV that was probably like 55 in sat on the floor. It was probably about 6 ft deep. You could hear days of our lives a quarter mile away [laughter] everywhere.
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: 哈哈，那时候有些电视机大得简直能住进一个人，毫不夸张，真的有那么大。
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: I mean, some of some of these things were big enough to live in. Literally, [laughter]
**凯拉·布莱克威尔**: 确实是那样。
Original English **Kyra Blackwell**: they were.
### 什么是回音壁及其核心优势 **罗茜·加林**: 好吧，所以我们搞清楚问题的根源了。看来买一个回音壁会是一个非常棒的解决方案。那我们先拉远视角来看一下。
Original English **Rosie Garin**: All right. So, we understand the problem. It sounds like getting a soundbar could be a great solution. So, let's zoom out for a minute.
**凯拉·布莱克威尔**: 布伦特，到底什么是回音壁？它能实现哪些电视自带扬声器根本做不到的事情？
Original English **Kyra Blackwell**: Brent, what actually is a soundbar? What is it doing that these TVs, these speakers, and the TVs cannot do?
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: 回音壁是完全专为声音服务的设备。它专注于为你提供**清晰的人声对白再现**和**强劲充沛的低音**。这样你在看动作大片时就能感受到震撼刺激的音效。而且许多回音壁都具备一定程度的**环绕声**（Surround Sound）功能，让你感受到声音环绕在你的周围，就像置身于电影院一样，或者至少非常接近影院效果。
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: So, it's dedicated entirely to sound. I mean, soundbar and it's really focused on delivering you clear vocal reproduction and good bass. So, you get that kind of excitement with action movies. And a lot of them have some degree of surround sound, so you get the sense that the sounds all around you just like in a movie theater or pretty close to it.
**罗茜·加林**: 它们通常长什么样呢？
Original English **Rosie Garin**: And what do they look like usually?
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: 顾名思义，它们就是一个长条形的条状音箱。长度从大概 1 英尺到天呐多达 4、5 英尺都有。有些做得很纤细，有些则相当庞大。而且大多数回音壁都会附带一个**低音炮**（Subwoofer），那是一个放在地板上的独立小箱子，专门用来再现低音。最棒的一点是，你可以很方便地把它藏在茶几或边桌底下这类不起眼的地方。
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: Well, they're a bar. You know, they can be anywhere from probably a foot long to, oh gosh, like four or five feet long. Some of them are really skinny and some of them are pretty gigantic. And most of them come with a subwoofer that's like a separate little box that sits on your floor and that's for the bass reproduction. And the nice thing is you can kind of hide that behind, you know, under an end table or something like that. Yeah.
**罗茜·加林**: 明白了。按理说，如果你想要获得真正的家庭影院体验，你得在房间四周乃至天花板上安装扬声器，才能彻底沉浸其中。那么一款优秀的回音壁能多大程度上接近那样的体验呢？
Original English **Rosie Garin**: Yeah. So presumably if you want a true home theater experience, you can be planting speakers around the room and the ceiling, really just immerse yourself. How close can a good soundbar get to an experience like that?
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: 就目前的技术而言，已经**惊人地接近**了。很多身边的铁杆家庭影院发烧友朋友最终也不得不承认：确实，顶级回音壁带来的效果已经无限逼近真正的家庭影院，以至于去买一大堆传统音箱不仅太麻烦，而且花销巨大，因为那种传统系统的安装布线太费劲了。回音壁在设计之初就考虑到了便利性，你只需要用一根线把它插到电视上，它就像电视本身的一部分一样无缝协同工作。大多数回音壁虽然配有遥控器，但就算你把遥控器弄丢了也无所谓。几十年来家庭音频系统最大的痛点就是大家根本不会操作，但回音壁操作起来真的非常非常简单，开机后直接使用，就像是电视机自带的原生组件一样。
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: Well, these days, shockingly close. I mean, a lot of my hardcore home theater friends finally agree like, yeah, the best the best sound bars really do come so close to a real home theater experience that, you know, getting all those speakers is just kind of too much of a hassle and an expense because, you know, it's hard to set that stuff up. Sound bars are designed to where you can just plug them into your TV and they work like part of the TV. So, most of them come with a remote, but you could probably lose the remote and you probably wouldn't care. And that's been just the problem with these systems for decades is that people couldn't work them. But sound bars are really, really easy to work. You just turn it on and boop, boop. All you do is, like I said, you work it like it's a part of the TV.
**凯拉·布莱克威尔**: 真正做到了傻瓜式操作（Foolproof）。
Original English **Kyra Blackwell**: Foolproof.
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: 没错，就是这样。
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: Yeah. [music]
### 价格梯度与核心功能解析 **罗茜·加林**: 在你的指南里，回音壁的价格区间可以从 **100 美元**一直延伸到超过 **2000 美元**。那么当你花更多钱的时候，到底买到了什么？这之间的差距有多悬殊？以及有什么划算的 deal 值得关注吗？
Original English **Rosie Garin**: Sound bars I've seen on your guide can range from, you know, $100 to well over 2,000. So, what are you actually getting when you spend more money? How dramatic is that difference? And yeah, like what are some good deals to look out for?
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: 花更多钱所获得的最直观提升，首先是**更大的音量与声场**。因为即便是在 150 美元价位段里最出色的产品，音质其实已经相当不错了，相比任何电视自带扬声器都是肉眼可见的巨大飞跃。当你投入更多预算时，通常会得到一套搭配的**无线后置环绕扬声器**，你只要把它们插在沙发后方，就能获得真实的物理环绕声效果。而没有后置音箱的普通回音壁只能靠算法模拟环绕声，虽然模拟效果也还可以，但背后有真正的物理扬声器发声绝对是不可同日而语的。此外，高端产品会配备**更大尺寸的低音炮**。150 美元档位的产品声音听起来已经算饱满讨喜了，大多数人都会很满意；但如果是 1500 美元级别的低音炮，震撼程度足以直接撼动你的沙发。
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: So, what you're getting more than anything else is more volume because even the best of the ones that are like 150 bucks really sound good and they're like an obvious huge improvement over any TV. When you spend more money, you're going to get more. You're going to probably get some surround speakers that go with it. And these will be wireless. So, you just plug them in behind you and you get a real surround effect. Whereas, you know, a typical soundbar that doesn't have those is going to kind of simulate a surround effect, which can be good. Having the real speaker back in behind you is always going to be better. And with some of these higherend ones, you're going to get a bigger subwoofer. And that goes from something that just, [snorts] you know, with the $150 ones, it's going to sound kind of full and gratifying and you're probably going to like it. The ones that are like 1,500, it's going to shake your couch.
**凯拉·布莱克威尔**: 听起来太爽了！
Original English **Kyra Blackwell**: That sounds awesome.
**罗茜·加林**: 有的人可能不太喜欢这种震动，但肯定很多人会爱死它。布伦特，如果有人现在正考虑买回音壁，但又不想像你那样钻研那么深奥的音频技术，在查阅你的指南并做决定之前，你会建议他们先摸清楚关于自己电视、房间环境、现有布局以及观影习惯的哪些情况？
Original English **Rosie Garin**: I mean, some people probably won't like that, but some people will really like that. If someone is thinking right now that they might like to get a soundbar, but don't want to delve as deep into audio as you are, Brent, what are the things that you would tell them to figure out about their TV, the room it's in, their setup, the way they watch before they look at your guide and kind of start deciding on what they might want.
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: 这很大程度上取决于你平时喜欢看什么类型的电影，以及你喜欢把音量开到多大。有些人喜欢看动作大片或体育赛事，喜欢把声音开得震天响。而且如果你的客厅非常宽敞空旷，那你肯定需要多花点预算，买一个能在大空间里释放出足够大声压的设备。另外，现在许多人买回音壁的最核心原因，就是因为电视自带扬声器让人根本听不清对白。很多回音壁都配备了**人声增强模式**（Voice Boost / Voice Enhance）。市场上甚至有几款专门针对听力障碍人群设计的回音壁，具备多档可调节的人声增强功能，当你把它调到最大档位时，听起来就像戴了一副助听器一样清晰。
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: A lot of it depends on what kind of movies you like to watch and how loud you like to listen. And some people like to put on action movies or sporting events or things like that and crank it really loud. And maybe you have a big giant living room, in which case you're going to need to spend more money and get something that'll play loud in a big room. I mean, a lot of the reason that people buy sound bars now is because with the TV speakers, they can't understand the the dialogue as you were talking about. A lot of these sound bars will have voice enhance modes. I mean, some of them, there's a couple on the market that are specifically designed for people who are hard of hearing, and they have adjustable voice boost. It actually sounds kind of like a set of hearing aids when you turn it all the way up.
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: 这让人声对白变得极其容易理解。很多最优秀的回音壁都提供三级不同强度的人声增强调节，你可以调到最适合自己耳朵的档位。这些功能都相当有效，有些表现更突出一些。但如果你平时看电视总觉得对白含混不清，选购时务必认准带有人声增强模式的产品。
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: That makes it a lot easier to understand. So, a lot of the best sound bars have voice boost that's in like three different levels, so you can get it just to where you want it. It's pretty great. All of them work to some extent. Some of them work a little better than others, but if you're having problem understanding dialogue, get something with a voice boost mode for sure.
### 专业评测方法与参考测试片单 **罗茜·加林**: 布伦特，你第一次上我们节目聊扬声器时，说过一句话让我们俩都印象深刻：你说你测试音箱时必听特蕾西·查普曼（Tracy Chapman）的《**Fast Car**》，从科学角度来说那是测试音箱最完美的曲目。那么在测试回音壁时，是否存在类似的标杆？你是怎么评测它们的？有没有一部用来测试的“完美电影”？
Original English **Rosie Garin**: Bren, when you were on the show the first time, you were talking to us about speakers. And one of the things that you said that stuck with both of us is that you test speakers listening to Fast Car by Tracy Chapman. And that's the scientifically the very best song to test speakers. So is there an equivalent with sound bars? How are you testing them? Is there the perfect movie that exists?
**凯拉·布莱克威尔**: 来吧，说出来让发烧友们好好破防争论一下！哈哈。
Original English **Kyra Blackwell**: Let's get people really, really mad. [laughter]
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: 肯定会引发激辩的，家庭影院发烧友在这方面向来观点极其鲜明且执着。其实有很多绝佳的测试片源，但我认为在做产品评估时，最聪明的策略是**找到能让这些设备露出破绽、彻底败下阵来的极限片段**。站在评测者的角度，这就像测试一辆跑车，你必须把它开上专业赛道一脚油门踩到底，才能真正检验出它的极限实力在哪里。
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: We will get people home theater enthusiasts are very opinionated about this and always have been. There are a lot of really good ones and and I think the smartest thing if you're evaluating this stuff, the thing to do is to find something that really makes these things sort of fail. You know, if you're me and you're testing them. It's like if you're testing a sports car, you want to put it on the racetrack and just, you know, floor it, right? To really see what it can do.
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: 是的，这就是我测试它们的方式，故意把它们推向甚至超越极限。我个人最喜欢的测试电影之一是《**猎杀U-571**》（U-571）。这是一部由马修·麦康纳（Matthew McConaughey）和哈维·凯特尔（Harvey Keitel）主演的二战潜艇题材电影。里面有大量的爆炸场面，比如深水炸弹、舰炮对轰等等，还有潜艇在水下运转的低频轰鸣。我常用它来测试低音炮的下潜和低音素质。片中有一段潜艇在深海航行发出嗡嗡轰鸣的场景，震撼感极强；还有一幕我特别喜欢，潜艇上的甲板炮向敌舰开火，在某些劣质回音壁上听起来就像有人在敲击铁皮垃圾桶盖一样单薄刺耳，而在优秀的回音壁上则是气势磅礴的沉重轰鸣，高下立判。
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: Yeah. And that's what I that's what I do with these things. So, I'm trying to push them to and past their limits. But probably my favorite is there's a movie called U571 and it was a, you know, submarine movie with Matthew McConna and Harvey Keitel. It has a lot of explosions, [laughter] you know, depth charges and cannons and things like that. And then the sub. So I use it for testing, you know, the base of the subwoofer. There's scenes where like like under the water and the submarines going you know, and [laughter] it really and and there's a scene I love in there where they shoot this cannon that's on the subwoofer and they shoot it at this boat. With some sound bars, it just [laughter] it sounds like somebody whacking on the top of a metal trash can. [laughter] And with some of them, it sounds like boom. And somewhere in between.
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: 同一部电影也非常适合测试人声对白。在音频中，**男声通常比女声更难还原清晰**，因为男声音调偏低，容易淹没在各类复杂的背景音效和环境噪音中，导致对白很难辨识。如果一款回音壁能在枪林弹雨和剧烈爆炸中依然让人清晰听懂《U-571》里的对话，那它就是真正过关的。至于环绕声测试，备选片源非常多，但我依然最钟爱《**现代启示录**》（Apocalypse Now）。片中有一幕士兵们下船走进丛林找芒果的场景，整个热带丛林里各种蚊虫飞鸟在你的四周盘旋嗡鸣。在一款真正出色的回音壁或环绕声系统上，那种声音包围感会逼真到让人毛骨悚然，让你感觉自己真的身处丛林之中——顺便给这部 40 年前的老电影做个剧透提示：那场戏中间会有一只猛虎突然猛扑出来！
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: that same movie has um you know male voices are harder to make clear than female voices because they're lower in pitch in all the noise and everything that's going on. A lot of times the dialogue is hard to understand. So if a soundbar makes that movie dialogue in the midst of all the action scenes understandable, that's good. There's Oh, there's just so many out there for surround sound. Still kind of my favorite is Apocalypse. Now, [laughter] there's a scene in there where they get off the boat and they go looking for I think mangoes and they go into the jungle and there's just bugs and everything buzzing all around you in the jungle. And on a really good soundbar or any good surround sound system, it's going to sound really creepy. It's going to sound like you're actually in spoiler alert [laughter] for a 40-year-old movie. Um, the tiger jumps out at you in the middle of it. [laughter]
**凯拉·布莱克威尔**: 听起来太惊险了。我原以为你会挑一部全是台词的片子，比如看《安妮·霍尔》（Annie Hall）来确认是不是能听清每一句对白呢。
Original English **Kyra Blackwell**: Terrifying. I was assuming that you would have to find like something dialogue like you would watch Annie Hall to make sure that you get all the dialogue or something.
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: 如果是纯粹测试对白，你需要挑选男女声交织均衡的电影。我个人最喜欢的测试片之一是《**玛蒂尔达**》（Matilda）。这也是一部老电影，深受喜爱的经典儿童片。里面的场景包含了极其丰富多样的不同音色与声调，用来测人声再合适不过了。不过我总是对读者说：你自己平时最爱看什么电影，就用什么电影去测试。
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: For just pure dialogue, you want a movie that has a mix of male and female dialogue. And one of my favorites is uh Matilda, which is a also an old movie. It's a beloved children's movie. And the scenes in there, the the there's such a range of voices in there. And it's just great for that. But, you know, I always tell people, you know, test with whatever movies you like. [music]
**凯拉·布莱克威尔**: 我在这里简单小结一下：听起来对于绝大多数普通用户来说，一款售价在 **100 到 150 美元**的入门级回音壁就已经完全能满足需求了。大家可以去查阅你的评测指南，最好趁着打折促销入手，它能显著增强对白清晰度，大幅提升看电视的整体体验。而买回家要测试的话，直接放你最喜欢的电影就行。
Original English **Kyra Blackwell**: I need a little recap here because it sounds like for most people the regular cheap soundbar [music] of $100 $150 will do the job. They can go check out your guide. Hopefully wait for a sale and just snag [music] that and it will help boost the dialogue and it will heighten the experience of watching their television. And if you want to test it, put on your favorite movie.
**罗茜·加林**: 对，或者挑你最沉迷的影视类型。我们稍事休息，插播一段音乐。休息回来后，我们将深入探讨布伦特在指南中重点推荐的具体回音壁型号；此外还有一个特别加更环节，我们将聆听布伦特在音频行业深耕 40 年生涯中测试过的最棒、最奇葩的设备故事。马上回来！
Original English **Rosie Garin**: Yeah. Or a genre that you dig, like something that you're you're [music] into. We're going to take a quick break and then when we're back, we're going to talk about some specific sound bars that Brent recommends, plus a bonus segment where we'll hear about the best and most interesting things Brent has ever tested in his 40 years in the industry. Be right back. [music] [music]
### 热门回音壁具体推荐指南 **罗茜·加林**: 欢迎回来！今天我们正与布伦特·巴特沃斯一起畅聊回音壁。布伦特，让我们来看看你指南里的具体推荐产品吧。我们来设定几个典型的使用场景，请你告诉我们在这些场景下你会推荐哪一款，准备好了吗？
Original English **Rosie Garin**: Welcome back. Today we're talking about soundbars with Brent Butterworth. Brent, let's get into some of your specific picks from your guide. We're going to give you a couple scenarios and we want you to tell us which soundbar you'd recommend. Are you game?
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: 时刻准备着。
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: Yep.
**罗茜·加林**: 首先，如果有人仅仅想为自家的电视寻找一个**价格亲民但表现出众**的基础升级方案，你会首选哪一款？
Original English **Rosie Garin**: So, first, if someone just wants a cheap but good solution for their TV, what would you pick?
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: 毫无疑问，**TCL S55H**。这款产品上市大概有一年半到两年了。它的日常售价通常在 150 美元左右，但在上一个亚马逊 **Prime Day** 会员日，价格直接降到了 99 美元。它真的非常棒，音质出众，配有一个表现得体的独立低音炮，具备相当不错的虚拟环绕声效果，还内置了人声增强模式。它的结构极其简单直观，上手毫无门槛。低音炮体积小巧，也就跟个鞋盒差不多大，很容易找个角落藏起来。价格便宜、声音好听、买回来往电视机前一放插上线就能用，完美搞定。
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: No question. The TCL S55H. And this one's been out for I think a year and a half, maybe two years. It's typically about 150 bucks, but uh last Prime Day it dropped to um 100 like $99. It's really good. It sounds great. It has a decent subwoofer. It has a pretty good amount of surround sound effect. It has a voice boost mode. It's really simple. It's really easy to use. You know, the subwoofer is not not big. You can easily hide it. It's the size of a like a shoe box. And it's just really simple. It's inexpensive. It sounds good. You plop it down. You're done.
**凯拉·布莱克威尔**: 我想这正是我想要的那款！
Original English **Kyra Blackwell**: I think that's the one that I want.
**罗茜·加林**: 我也打算买这一款了。那好，如果有人想在这个基础上进一步升级呢，布伦特？有没有那种能带来极高**性价比**、体验更上一层楼的选择，你会把他们引向哪里？
Original English **Rosie Garin**: I'm getting that one. Okay. So, if someone wants an upgrade from that, Brent, something that will really get a good bang for their buck, where are you sending them?
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: **Vizio** 旗下有一系列表现优异的回音壁，价格稍贵一些，大致在 **300 到 500 美元**之间。它们的基本设计逻辑是一致的：花得越多，获得的物理环绕音箱就越多，低音炮的尺寸也越大。虽然核心的基础调音品质差不多，但随着预算增加，你能获得更加身临其境的宏大声场奇观。我们指南中目前的升级首选是 **Vizio Elevate 7.1.4 Pro**，在沃尔玛售价大约为 450 美元，它拥有极其震撼强劲的真正全景声环绕效果。
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: There are a bunch of sound bars from Vizio, which are a little more expensive to they probably range from about 300 to 500. And they're similar. And the more you spin, the more surround speakers you get and the bigger of a subwoofer you get, basically. So the sound, the fundamental sound quality is kind of similar. You just get more sort of spectacle as you spin more. And the one we have in there right now is the Vizio Elevate 7.1.4 Pro and it's about 450 at Walmart. It has a very powerful surround sound effect.
**罗茜·加林**: 这钱花得太值了，性价比拉满！
Original English **Rosie Garin**: You're getting a lot for your money. [laughter]
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: 是的。而且 Vizio 也做了一些现代化的升级体验，虽然包装里没给传统实体遥控器，但他们开发了手机 App，能对回音壁的各项音频参数进行极为精细的微调。你至少得打开那个 App 一次，因为 Vizio 出厂默认把低音炮音量开得极其夸张，轰头得厉害，所以开箱后你必须去 App 里把低音调低一点。虽然很显然有人就喜欢这种爆炸低音，否则厂家也不会这么设定，但对我而言，我每次都得手动把低音关小一些。
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: Yeah. And they also they kind of upgrade. They don't have a remote control, but they have an app that you can use that gives you some very very precise control over the soundbar. And you will [gasps] [sighs] you will at least have to use it once because Visio turns their subwoofers up really loud [laughter] out of the box. So, you have to turn the subwoofer down. I mean, hey, you know, obviously somebody likes it or they wouldn't do it, but for me, I always have to turn it down.
**罗茜·加林**: 那纯粹为了好玩假设一下：如果有人**预算不设上限**，家里客厅配置极为豪华，配有超大屏幕电视，想要一款与之完全匹配的顶级回音壁，你会推荐什么？
Original English **Rosie Garin**: So, just for fun, let's just imagine somebody has an unlimited budget. They've got really nice setup. They've got a big TV and they want a soundbar to match it. What are you recommending?
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: 我有几款心头好，可以多列举两款吗？
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: Okay, I have a few. Can I give you a few?
**罗茜·加林**: 当然可以，请讲。
Original English **Rosie Garin**: Yeah.
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: 首先是行业标杆级基准。多年来高端领域的黄金标准一直是**三星**（Samsung）的旗舰系列。他们每年都会稍作改款升级，目前的最新型号是 **Samsung HW-Q990D**（在录音中提到为 Q990 系列）。它是一个相当庞大的回音壁，配备了一只巨大的低音炮，售价大约在 1500 到 1600 美元左右。但是当你亲耳聆听时，它的环绕声场极其霸道震撼，人声对白还原得晶莹剔透、极为纯净。如果你用这套设备看电视还听不清对白，那我建议你真得去医院检查一下听力了。这是一款极其伟大的产品，多年来它的三四代改款一直稳坐我们的顶级推荐宝座。
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: Okay. Sort of the baselines. I think for a few years, the sort of standard has been the Samsung Oh, they've had a bunch of different models. They just change it slightly every year. Currently, it's the Samsung HW Q990H, and it's a pretty big bar. It's got a big subwoofer. I think it's about 1500,600, something like that. But when you hear it, I mean, it's got a very powerful surround effect. The voice reproduction is spectacularly clear. So, if you have a problem understanding dialogue with this, you're you need to get it checked out. And um uh just a great great great product. and it's been a pick of ours in oh three or four different versions at least over the years.
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: 不过三星唯一的缺点在于外观工业设计略显平庸，看着就像你从 Best Buy 大卖场随手搬回来的大黑盒子——虽然它确实能在 Best Buy 买到。如果你想要一台真正颜值超群的产品，**Bose** 推出了 **Smart Ultra Soundbar**，并且可以搭配自家的独立低音炮。回音壁本体大约 1100 美元，低音炮大约 700 美元，整套算下来要 1800 美元左右。但它的外观质感极其高级漂亮，对于注重家装美感的人来说是不二之选，同时性能也处于金字塔尖。它的低音炮素质甚至比三星附带的还要细腻好上一筹。无论你的客厅装修风格多么前卫轻奢，摆上它绝不会有人挑出半点毛病。它还提供白色版本，支持壁挂安装。顺便提一句，如果你的电视是挂在墙上的，你完全可以把回音壁优雅地壁挂在电视正下方，只要你有相应的动手能力和安装工具，整体视觉效果会极其整洁利落。
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: But there's also the thing is it doesn't look particularly beautiful and you know it sort of looks like something you'd buy at Best Buy which is you can buy at Best Buy but Bose makes one called the Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar and you can get a subwoofer with it. The soundbar I think is about uh 1,100 and the subwoofer is like another 700 on top of that. So, you're spending about 1,800 bucks, but it looks really nice. And for people who want something that looks nice, it also has very high performance. The subwoofer is actually just a hair better than the one that comes with the Samsung. No one's going to object to this if you put it in your living room, no matter how sleek and stylish your living room is. And you can get it in white and you can hang it. That's one another thing we didn't talk about is with sound bars. If you're so inclined, if your TV's wall mounted, you can also wall mount the soundbar under the TV and get a really nice clean look. You know, if you have the necessary skills and wherewithal to do that.
**凯拉·布莱克威尔**: 没错！每次我走进做了这种壁挂回音壁设计的房子，心里都会感叹：“哇，这家人真是把生活打理得井井有条，绝对是成功人士的生活方式！”哈哈。
Original English **Kyra Blackwell**: Yeah. When I walk into houses that have that, I'm like, \"Oh, they have their stuff together.\" You know, you've made it. [laughter]
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: 我还忘了一点没提：现在的回音壁全系列都标配了**蓝牙功能**。你可以直接把手机通过蓝牙连上去播放音乐或任何音频内容。虽然用它放歌的音质可能比不上正统的高保真立体声双声道音箱，但对大多数人的日常休闲听歌来说已经绰绰有余了。
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: I forgot to mention one thing. All of these things have Bluetooth now. And so you can Bluetooth your phone or whatever into it and play music or whatever your phone's playing. It's probably not going to sound as good as it does on a normal stereo system, but it's I think for most people it's fine.
### 四十年评测生涯与退役时刻 **罗茜·加林**: 布伦特，你今天为我们奉献了关于音箱和回音壁的绝妙干货。但事实上，在本期节目里我们稍微隐藏了最重要的重磅新闻——因为真正的大头条是：**你即将光荣退休了**！恭喜你！
Original English **Rosie Garin**: So Brent, you've gifted us with some terrific information about speakers, about sound bars. The truth is we've buried the lead a little bit in this episode because the real headline is that you are very very very very close to retiring. Congratulations.
**凯拉·布莱克威尔**: 热烈祝贺！
Original English **Kyra Blackwell**: Congrats.
**罗茜·加林**: 无比辉煌的职业生涯！整个 Wirecutter 都会深深想念你的。在你正式离开之前，我们想问几个关于你职业生涯的问题。大致估算一下，在你为 Wirecutter 效力的这些年里，你觉得你一共测试过多少款产品？
Original English **Rosie Garin**: Incredible career. You're going to be missed at Wire Cutter. Before you go, we want to ask you a few questions about your career at Wire Cutter Ballpark. How many products do you think you've tested during your time here?
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: 我之前还真琢磨过这个数字，我觉得大概在 **2000 款左右**。因为除了为我自己负责的品类指南做测试之外，我还帮同事们测试了海量的产品。比如我们的耳机编辑劳伦·德拉根（Lauren Dragan），她经常把耳机寄给我做声学测量。实际上，今天我还收到了她寄给我的最后一批待测耳机！哈哈。
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: It is somewhere I'm I was thinking about that. I think it's somewhere around 2,000 because I also besides the stuff I do for my guides, I test a lot of products for other people. So like for Lauren Dragon, who's our headphone editor, she sends me headphones to measure. In fact, I'm getting my last batch today. [laughter]
**凯拉·布莱克威尔**: 哇塞！
Original English **Kyra Blackwell**: Wow.
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: 要知道我明天就正式退休了！
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: And I retire tomorrow. But um
**凯拉·布莱克威尔**: 她肯定是想赶在你离职前最后压榨一波，赶上末班车！哈哈。
Original English **Kyra Blackwell**: she's like, I got to get it in under the wire. [laughter]
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: 但话说回来，我负责过诸如耳塞隔音性能的严苛技术测试，还测试过助眠白噪音机的最大播放响度。多年来大家遇到各种稀奇古怪的技术验证测试都会找我，寄给我一大堆奇奇怪怪的东西让我搞明白。但这正是我最擅长的事情，我天生就喜欢把复杂事物的底细彻底搞清楚。
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: But, you know, I run I run technical tests on things like earplugs and uh I've tested, you know, sleep machines to see how loud they play. People have called me in for all just so many random tests and sent me big piles of stuff to figure out. [laughter] That's what my that that's what I'm good at. I'm good at figuring stuff out. So,
**罗茜·加林**: 2000 多款产品，太震撼了。你当年加入 Wirecutter 时已经在音频领域摸爬滚打了多年，积累了深厚底蕴。但在为 Wirecutter 撰稿、调研和编辑的过程中，有没有学到什么让你至今铭记于心的东西？
Original English **Rosie Garin**: 2000 plus. Okay. Well, so you arrived at Wire Cutter having spent many many years working in audio. lots and lots of knowledge, but is there something you learned through your work here writing, reporting, editing that sticks with you?
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: 我们在 Wirecutter 所做的事情与众不同。我是在 2012 年作为自由撰稿人开始为 Wirecutter 工作的。这种评测机制最触动我的是：在以往我待过的所有传统媒体里，通常是厂家送来一款产品，你写个单品测评，结论往往是‘哦，这东西挺不错的’。但在 Wirecutter，我们的唯一目标是**找出市场上最好的一款，或者最好的两三款推荐给读者**。为了验证这些产品到底值不值那个价格，我们所做的横向测试要比绝大多数商业媒体广泛深入得多。这就是 Wirecutter 对我而言最神奇的魅力：在这里我感到无比自由，可以彻底抛弃过去音频圈那些盛行的‘伪方法论’玄学，真正去探寻普通消费者最核心的真实需求。因为如你所知，我也接触过很多音频发烧友，发烧友不仅要性能好，还要追求所谓的‘逼格’或品牌光环，好向朋友炫耀；但我们在 Wirecutter 刺破了这一切虚幻泡沫。我们的宗旨非常纯粹：**永远不用去迎合产品厂商怎么想，百分之百只专注于读者**。
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: What we've done is different. I started working for Wire Cutter in 2012 as a freelancer. The thing that struck me about the approach is with all the publications I worked at before, you get a product in and you review it. It's like, oh, this is pretty good. At Wire Cutter, it's more like trying to find the best one or the best two or three or four. So, we did a lot more extensive testing than most publications do to try to find out if some of these products are really worth the money. That's sort of to me the magic of Wire Cutter is that it kind of uh I felt free to abandon some of the non-methodology that had been so common in audio testing and really try to find out what people really needed in these products. Because of course we're dealing with more of a you know I also deal to some extent with audio enthusiasts and audio enthusiasts want not only something that performs well but something that has some aura of coolness where you can tell your friends oh I have this but we kind of cut past all that and and did not feel like we had to well that's the thing is at wire cutter it's kind of like never worry about what the manufacturer of the product thinks just focus on the reader.
**罗茜·加林**: 那么，在你的产品测试经历中，能跟我们分享一个最离谱、最惊心动魄的故事吗？
Original English **Rosie Garin**: So, what's the most outlandish story you can share about product testing?
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: 我不知道这算不算离谱，但绝对是最愚蠢的一件事了。哈哈，那还是很久以前，我和 Wirecutter 的创刊编辑之一**杰夫·莫里森**（Geoff Morrison）一起测试便携蓝牙音箱。当时我们正在他家的泳池边上，杰夫顺手抓起其中一个正在测试的音箱问我：‘这玩意儿能浮在水面上吗？’我顺口就答：‘能啊，绝对浮得起来！’然后我顺手抢过来就一把扔进了泳池里——结果它根本浮不起来！
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: It was this I don't know about if it's if it's outlandish. It's probably the stupidest. Um, I was I [laughter] was in one of the founding uh editors of Wire Cutter, Jeff Morrison, and I were testing Bluetooth speakers a long time ago, and we were by his pool. He grabbed one of them that we were testing and he says, \"Does this thing float?\" I'm like, \"Oh, yeah.\" And I just sort of grabbed it from him and like tossed it in the pool [laughter] and it didn't float.
**罗茜·加林**: 天呐，惨了！
Original English **Rosie Garin**: Oh no, that's
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: 音箱直接沉到了池底！杰夫吓得飞快跑去拿捞网，把它从水底捞了出来。被捞出水面后，那个可怜的音箱发出了如同垂死尖叫一般的刺耳怪声：‘啊啊啊——’而且一直在凄厉地响个不停！我当时看着那个在绝望痛苦中尖叫的音箱，心里内疚极了。它足足凄厉地惨叫了大概 **45 分钟**才终于彻底断气停歇。所以听众朋友们，千万不要把你的蓝牙音箱直接扔进游泳池里，除非你百分之百确信它不仅能漂浮，或者具备至少 1 米水深的专业防水级别——虽然现在很多音箱都能做到了，但在那个年代，带防水功能的音箱还是个非常罕见的稀罕物。
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: it. Just sinks. So Jeff very quickly ran and got his net and he pulls this thing up and he pulls it out of the water and it's making this screaming sound like [laughter] and and it won't stop screaming. And I felt so bad for this speaker that was, you know, screaming in agony. And it took like 45 minutes for it to finally stop screaming. [laughter] So don't throw your Bluetooth speaker in the pool unless you know it floats or you know it's it's waterproof to at least 1 meter, which a lot of them were, [laughter] but back then it was more of an uncommon thing.
**罗茜·加林**: 太精彩了，我太喜欢这个故事了！为布伦特干杯，万分感谢你！祝贺你光荣退休！我们会无比想念你，想念你精彩卓绝的评测之作。我们衷心祝愿你未来的退休生活一切顺遂安好！
Original English **Rosie Garin**: I love that. Cheers, Brent. Thank you so much. Congratulations. We will miss you and we will miss your work. I think mostly we just wish you all the best.
**凯拉·布莱克威尔**: 祝你一切顺利！
Original English **Kyra Blackwell**: All the best.
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: 真的非常感谢你们。
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: Well, thank you.
**罗茜·加林**: 不过我相信我们以后一定还会听到你的消息的。
Original English **Rosie Garin**: I'm sure we'll be hearing from you though.
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: 哈哈，我肯定会一直收听节目的。
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: Oh, I'll be listening.
**凯拉·布莱克威尔**: 那是一定的！我也会继续拜读你的文章。
Original English **Kyra Blackwell**: Absolutely. And I'll still be reading. [music]
**罗茜·加林**: 感谢你，布伦特！
Original English **Rosie Garin**: Thanks, Brent.
**布伦特·巴特沃斯**: 谢谢大家。
Original English **Brent Butterworth**: Thank you.
**罗茜·加林**: 如果你对布伦特今天推荐的任何回音壁感兴趣，或者想了解 Wirecutter 的更多精彩选购指南，欢迎访问 nytimes.com/wirecutter，或点击我们节目下方的 Show Notes 链接。非常感谢大家的收听，我们下期节目再见，拜拜！
Original English **Rosie Garin**: If you are interested in any of the soundbars that Brett recommended today or you just want to read more from Wire Cutter in general, go to ny time.com/wirecutter [music] or find a link in our show notes. Thank you so much for listening. See you next time. Bye-bye.
**制作组**: 《The Wirecutter Show》执行制片人为罗茜·加林（Rosie Garin），制作人为阿比盖尔·基尔（Abigail Keel）。技术工程支持来自马蒂·马齐耶洛（Mattie Maziello）和尼克·皮特曼（Nick Pitman）。本期节目的混音由凯瑟琳·安德森（Catherine Anderson）完成。原创音乐作者包括丹·鲍威尔（Dan Powell）、玛丽安·洛扎诺（Marian Lozano）、艾丽西亚·比图普（Alicia Bitup）、凯瑟琳·安德森、罗文·尼米斯托（Rowan Nimisto）和黛安·黄（Diane Wong）。克里夫·利维（Cliff Levy）担任 Wirecutter 副发行人兼总经理，本·弗鲁明（Ben Frumin）担任 Wirecutter 总编辑。
Original English **The Wire Cutter Show**: The Wire Cutter Show is executive [music] produced by Rosie Garin and produced by Abigail Keel. Engineering support from Mattie Maziello and Nick Pitman. Today's episode [music] was mixed by Catherine Anderson. Original music by Dan Powell, Marian Lozano, Alicia [music] Bitup, Katherine Anderson, Rowan Nimisto, and Diane Wong. Cliff Levy is Wire Cutters deputy publisher and general manager. Ben [music] Fman is Wire Cutters editorin chief.
**凯拉·布莱克威尔**: 我是凯拉·布莱克威尔。
Original English **Kyra Blackwell**: I'm Kyra Blackwell,
**罗茜·加林**: 我是罗茜·加林。感谢大家的收听！
Original English **Rosie Garin**: and I'm Rosie Garrett. Thanks for listening.