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If this sentiment is typical of your customer base, then why aren't you selling and installing in-wall speakers, hiding AVR's and doing IR repeater setups? That's what I've done for most of my family and friends that feel this way about home audio. In-Walls can sound fine if you do a decent job packing the wall behind the speaker with fiber fill or other dampening material. Even more so nowadays with Audyssey XT32 and Dirac you can get fairly impressive sound from this type of install.I get their wishes ... they want good sound without giving up half their living space or taking out a second mortgage to get it.
A typical Sound Bar Killer is something like an Aiyima A07 and a nice pair of bookshelf speakers... Half the time the speakers end up on the ends of their TV stand or on a pair of end tables... I'm very cautious about safety since almost always their are either kids or grand kids in the house. I was hoping to solve the problem with a pair of small floor standers... like the L-100s but no way they're spending that kind of money on better TV sound.... and FWIW I agree there are limits.
It's too bad Radio Shack is gone ... their "Minimus 8" speakers would be perfect ... 8 inch woofer, 2 inch paper tweeters, and that rich "old radio" sound...