Soldato
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Appreciate the points there @lucid . I started down another rabbit hole "what if I got a 3.0 passive soundbar, then found some wireless atmos upfirers for the bookshelves.. and rears, and a sub". But then I would have spent £1500+ which is totally not worth it for this room (and huge point to make - my girlfriend is so paranoid about noise re. the neighbours we'll never watch anything at what I'd call a 'decent' volume anyway) plus the expected £1,000 on the TV and I just can't spend that right now. Unless you can find me a passive 3.0 soundbar with wireless rears, subwoofer, and atmos up-firers for under a grand all in?
Also, in complete laymans terms if I want to wall mount the TV and soundbar then it'd going to require trunking some cables against the wall from the receiver up to the soundbar and that's jusst a lot of effort for something that probably wouldn't pass the girlfriend test. lol
I'm pretty set on TV choice if I go this route. Probably Panasonic but maybe Sony. It's the soundbars I know nothing about. I think I need to start a new thread entitled "spec me an Atmos soundbar <£600 with a sub, and the ability to add wireless rear speakers at a later stage" ...
Not many passive soundbars around tbh there's these
Passive Soundbars | Monitor Audio
Monitor Audio's Soundbars provide the high definition sound you've been missing, and match the look of your TV with contemporary lifestyle design.
www.monitoraudio.com
You can then use any AVR and active subwoofer
tbh at that £600 I wouldn't even consider atmos as generally
"Less speakers, but higher quality speakers" is better than "lots of speakers, and all crappy quality" A quality 2.1 system will outclass a low end atmos system for sound quality. I can guarntee my home theatre in stereo mode or 2.1 mode will sound better than any soundbar.