It does feel like the system that could beat this would cost quite a bit more if you were doing it all at once from scratch. But the bigger advantage is these are super friendly to awkward room layouts or small spaces. Might be the only great surround sound system for tight spaces.

Yeah no it’s to build it in stages in that case and know if a speaker dies or something I’m not hosed. But yeah getting surround to sound good in a smaller room is always a headache so if they can do that, it’s pretty awesome in itself tbh.