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The Zenith TV I grew up with like the one in my avatar, had a 10" full range speaker behind the bottom grill. Had great sound. When that TV finally died my Dad bought a tabletop Emerson, disconnected the little speaker in it, stacked it on top of the old Zenith and used the old Zenith's speaker.
My Sony LCD set from '08 has pretty decent sounding front firing speakers. Good mids and highs and even a trace of bass. Also has a set of always active variable audio outputs that I hook to a JBL powered sub-woofer. With the TV and that sub, I rarely ever turn on the surround receiver. Watching "TheCoolTV" channel right now it's putting out the bass.
Seems like pretty much all new sets have a minimal speaker setup just to make a sound, intended for customer to use a "sound bar" or AV receiver with.
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