soundquality televisionbroadcasting THAT good ?


Hey guys! I need to ask any of you a question. I am not familiar with the finer things discussed on this forum. I know that I have a fine audio (with CD) setup that sounds excellent through my Sennheiser HD600. But when I plug into my not state of the art television I hear a depth and resolution that I didn't even knew existed! Why am I still wasting money on my system for if there is more in a television!!!

So the question(s) are. Is this thesame two channel high definition sound (as with SACD and DVD) that is broadcasted? Is the broadcast boosted up somehow with surround features? And can these features sound so earth quakingly good?
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It is technically impossible for the FM audio from a standard television broadcast to be as good as what good CD playback has to offer in terms of both frequency extension and dynamic range. I agree with Blueswan that it just sounds so much better through your headphones than the regular speakers that you are temoprarily fooled that it is as good as your CD, unless of course there is a problem with the quality of the CD playback.
What you describe is simply the inferiority of built-in TV speakers. This is why many of us send our TV audio through our main stereo system. TV sound can vary enormously. The audio in the baseband channels is typically highly compressed and forward. Premium movie channels are much better with less compression and more resolution. HD channels have no signal processing and the audio is excellent, on par with DVD soundtracks. The music channels are MP3 quality at best. My Motorola cable box has an on-screen audio compression option which I have set to "None".