There is a lot of text just to bitch to people that probably don’t care about niche differences. We’re talking about budget options here, not “audiophile” snake oil.

I do trust the opinion of places like Rtings and while that is definitely a generic mid-range system, it’s what they recommended for a budget soundbar system. You provided opinion and an alternative that’s twice as expensive for a pair of bookshelf speakers.

I don’t personally care about a random “audiophile” opinion, especially on a random site like Lemmy. From my experience most of those opinions usually are about as good as Monster cables were. 100% when that audio opinion includes absolutely horrendous a things like “I have two ears: I only need to speakers.”