What is inside a sound bar?


and how do they work?
I know they are some type of speaker, but WHAT are they? (I have "GOOGLED" but could not find a cut-away view). Do they contain speaker cone drivers or are they electrostatic? Is anyone looking into these?Do these have HE potential? I like the idea of speakers that can hang on the wall and still produce high quality sound.
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Showing 1 response by snofun3

Unsound - maybe it's a substitute for a 5.1 system for those people who don't have room or interest, and have other things to do like read a book, play with their kids, help someone out, build something or whatever, rather than obsess about which cable to buy, what power chord(sic)is the best, what speaker will "blow away" another, the nuances of image depth or some other audio neurosis that appears to take so much time for so many people (that maybe could be used to play with their kids, or build something......)

To the OP - it's a bunch of (usually) cheap speakers in a box with some set up to achieve a (usually) poor psychoacoustic effort of having a 5.1 system. Some are alleged to be OK at their purpose (I haven't heard them), but they typically have a very small sweet spot