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The void between consumer audio and specialist has been diverging for many years. Changes in lifestyle and the way music content is now consumed (on-the move) play a big part. However, you only have to look at the volume of music consumed pre and post smartphone to see the real driver. We should...

A guy in a tv shop told me recently that tv manufacturers will start to phase out optical connections. Can't see it myself, but I wonder if anyone else heard anything like this. If its true, then speakers with optical only will be defunked in future. Be interested to hear from anyone in this.

Oh, just remebered though. Superfi are actually knocking 10% off the Sonos playbar at the gadget show in anyones in the market for one.

Hi ALAYTON81, Absolutely true that a soundbar is no match for a comparitively priced 5.1 system. What the guy on the Monitor stand told me was they take the 7.1 channels from the BD and re-create it by adding some sort of psyco-acoustic effects. So unlike the Yamaha, that relies on boucing soud...

I visited the Gadget show for the first time yesterday to look at Soundbar options. Spotted a new soundbar on the Monitor Audio stand. It's called the ASB-2 and seems to have:- HDMI 3 in 1 out switching 7.1 processing 3D surround processing (which worked really well) built in sub-woofers...