Terk VR1 Automatic TV Volume Controller | List Price: $39.99
Discount Price: $19.39
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Brand: Terk
Binding: Electronics
Features: - Compatible with any AV device using RCA connectors
- Once installed, never needs adjusting
- Advanced Digital Signal Processing for quick, automatic volume adjustment - in less than 2/1000-ths of a second
- Built-in Noise Reduction removes the 'hiss' present in some sounds
- Adjusts bass and treble signals for improved dialogue
enhance your tv viewing [Posted on 2008-05-20]
I purchased one of these because my wife kept yelling at me to turn the volume down whenever a commercial came on. Then when the program came back on I had to turn it up again. Now if I can just find a way to fix those other 1000 things she yells at me about...
I've had it for a couple of years and it is an excellent device...just plug it in and it works, you must have audio jacks on the TV.
This one I purchased for my neighbor because he had the same problem with his wife.
Does what it says [Posted on 2008-05-22]
Well I have been using the Terk VR-1 now for about 4-5 years. It recently starting adding a lot of electronic noise (buzzing, clicking, etc.)to the audio signal so I had to remove it and go without this volume regulator. OMG, I had blissfully forgotten how %$@$^&#@!* horrible it is to watch TV without this unit!!! I am ordering another one immediately. The only reason I don't give it 5 stars is that if the power goes out (which happens constantly for some reason around here) you have to unplug the unit and plug it back in to get any audio. I have wasted a few hours over the years trying to figure out what the hell had gone wrong with my audio only to 'remember' eventually that solution. lol Seems like there could be some sort of automatic reset in the circuitry somewhere.
Terk VR1 Automatic TV Volume Controller [Posted on 2008-05-28]
This works great for normalizing the volume. I've been using for for over 2 weeks and it's a pleasure not to have to keep reaching for the remote to mute the volume on those BLASTING LOUD commercials.
The only time it don't work too well is when they process the sound by concentrating all the energy in to the mid range and reducing the low and high frequencies. The limiter sees this as normal audio because the overall
audio signal is the same just concentrated in to the mid range making the
mid range louder but the highs and lows are lower so the over all signal is the same. kind of like squeezing a balloon, if you squeeze a balloon in your hand it compresses where you squeeze it and expands out in the other direction, same amount of air in it but it looks bigger, that's what they do with the sound. you would need a very big expensive audio processor to correct this. but it does help even with this.
Over all I'm very satisfied with this Volume Controller it does what it claims to do and does it good. I now reach for the remote maybe 2-3 times a day instead of every commercial break.
No more low shows and commercials that seem 10 times louder then the show.
I highly recommend it.
Terk VR1 [Posted on 2008-06-18]
Over all we are very satisfied with the product. It does what it is designed to do. There is still some volume variation but nothing like before. I can listen to my MP3's now at a reasonably steady level. Because they are taken from different albums there was a volume issue before, one loud another soft.
This product does not have the optical cable hookup, it only comes with RCA style connections.
If Only It Worked . . . ! [Posted on 2008-07-10]
It's an attractive unit that installs easily. Thank heaven the operation is intuitive because there are no instructions. You just hook it up, turn on and wait for results. It's a l-o-n-g wait . . .
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