In the garbage can is objectively the best place for soundbars. 😆

JK! Place just below the TV and enjoy.

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I retired as the undefeated video game family champ when my 13-year-old daughter began to surpass in my early 30s. I brutally crushed my kids at every opportunity before then. My reaction times just weren’t up to snuff.

Now I’m in my 50s and just don’t sweat it - I play for fun at whatever difficulty is challenging and fun and never play competitive multi-player anymore.

Fun fact, that same daughter probably could have competed professionally, but now that she is 31, stated she is simply too old to compete.

My beast class A/B Rotel amp visibly dims room lights when turned on - I can’t imagine leaving that sucker on or why anyone would want to.

Your amp is not an efficient way to heat a room.

I ran a nice Onkyo RZ (which was their higher end model) surround receiver with my B&W CM9 S3 floorstanders / 5.1 surround setup for years and it was a great reciever, no complaints.

I upgraded to a Rotel rap-1580mkii and it seems to handle the B&Ws better, even at lower volumes. This could be entirely subjective, but it simply seems the extra headroom allows the Rotel to sound more effortless.

What is not subjective is that the Dirac on the Rotel is worlds better than the Onkyo’s room correction solution and the 120W per channel on the Rotel can get far, far louder than the 70W per channel on my old Onkyo without distortion.

Was it worth the $3K price difference? That is of course entirely subjective - for me and my particular setup / use it has been very satisfying. For most people an Onkyo, Yamaha, etc is just fine.