It is often with the built-in speakers where a budget TV can really show its roots and, duly, the Hisense provides a very thin and unconvincing sound stage that is only redeemed by the fact dialogue always remains clear. For the money you’ve saved, you might want to consider an external such as a pair of active speakers or a soundbar. We also noticed lip sync issues with all external inputs, although the delay settings in the Audio menu allowed us to, more or less, fix them totally other than with externally fed Ultra HD video sources from Netflix and Amazon which were a good two seconds out..