[Mount81]

With a Soundbar (which are basically hilarious for any surround and HD audio with their tiny speakers and that "virtual" marketing whatever), one will probably max out their chances with DD and DTS already. But with a fine, even entry level AVR and proper, quality 7.1 speaker setup i guess there's no way you wouldn't snap to attention by the SQ differences, even in just the case of DD+ Atmos. (My opinion is that even the possibilities of DD and DTS are far beyond the capabilities of any -even more expensive- soundbar. My question would be rather, that why would you want Atmos (or just any surround or HD audio) on a one-piece narrow rod anyway? Get rather a quality 2.0 speaker set -for the price of your soundbar- and you probably still will heave more craft, space, detail and clarity in your SQ, than a soundbar would be ever capable of.)