TV and home video editor Ty Pendlebury joined CNET Australia in 2006, and moved to New York City to be a part of CNET in 2011. He tests, reviews and writes about the latest TVs and audio equipment.

More recently than I’d like to admit, I was convinced that no soundbar could reproduce the sound quality found with good home theater speakers and an amplifier. It seems that Samsung, Sonos, LG, and ...