If there’s one thing a worldwide pandemic benefits, it makes you count your true blessings. I’m grateful my household is healthy, and I’m thankful I still have my job. I’m also thankful– and it’s a little adequate thing– to live in the golden era of streaming.
There’s so much content available now, from totally free library ebooks to critically-acclaimed TV shows and films I now invest every evening desperately bobbling from book to reveal to movie, attempting to distract myself from completion of the world. I was especially delighted to watch Fall de Wilde’s Emma., a bubbly, colorful confection about extremely abundant, extremely quite people whose most significant problems in no way look like mine.
Earlier in what had actually been a very long week, I opened and plugged in Roku’s smart soundbar, cordless speakers, and subwoofer After Emma. ended (My evaluation: Lovely, very good), the credits started rolling and I began to stand up. The opening chords of Johnny Flynn’s “Queen Bee” started.
I relaxed down once again. Through the subwoofer, the warm, abundant strains of the cello vibrated in the still air of my living-room. Johnny Flynn’s affectless monotone was crisp, clear, and uplifting. The hair on my scalp stood up. What was occurring? Was I getting an ASMR response from a song?
Those three minutes of pure aural satisfaction were such a welcome, unexpected break from unrelenting weeks of anxiety. If you also discover yourself streaming film after film, trying to forget that we’re all living in a housebound, purgatorial half-life, I can’t think about a much better time to try a soundbar.
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It’s totally possible you never ever noticed your TV’s awful noise, particularly if the TV is on as background sound, tuned to kid’s TV programs while you’re cooking. That was the case with me. For many years, I played dinosaur documentaries and films on a 10- year-old, 55- inch Panasonic with tinny, blown-out, integrated speakers.
But when my colleagues found this state of affairs, they sent me Roku’s smart soundbar as an act of mercy. It was ea
