silentpat

This is fantastic - thank you so much!

I'd be fine with speakers - but I'd need an amp to drive them, I assume. Budget - is an issue, because I don't actually know what a dollar gets me in terms of sound quality. Like I went out and got WH-1000xm4 headphones because I knew the quality was worth the price, I could hear the sound difference in the noise cancellation/sound quality. When it comes to soundbars/home theatre - I'm out of my depth. I wouldn't spend over $1000, but I'd much rather spend much less if I can get away with decent quality. I'd love to test but going to a local Best Buy doesn't really help - it's huge and loud, not exactly the best environment to test.

Main reasons for wanting to upgrade - it sounds just...fine? Like I listen to reviews about how new soundbars sound like they're filling the space and have 3d audio and virtual speakers, etc. This sounds like...a speaker firing in front of you. Nothing special. Like it's not "bad" but also... not what I'm seeing in reviews of new products. It also doesn't have HDMI ports - it's got optical audio in from the TV and RCA for the turntable. It still says VCR/DVD... like my turntable is "VCR" lol

I've had the same soundbar for 13 years at this point. It sounds alright - but I'm assuming the tech has advanced significantly. I have a turntable, ps5, LG C1 and a small space (I sit about 6 feet from my television, though the space is fairly wide, about 40'. I started looking into new soundbars and was a bit overwhelmed at the variety in price and specs, so any recommendations on a good value vs. what I have would be nice. Thanks!

Thanks for the suggestions! I haven't decided what direction I'm going - but this gives me some good roads to follow.

Budget (including currency): $2500 CND Country: Canada Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: MS Office, Lightroom, Photoshop, Indesign, Gaming (Nothing competitive - VR, Cities: Skylines, FFXIV, Forza 4 and hopefully 5, Age of Empires IV), some light Premiere use Other details I have a 2017 13" Razer Stealth (i78550u, 16gb) - its battery swelled and so I took it out and used it as my desktop with a 1070 aorus eGPU, and got a crappy used lenovo as my travel/media consumption laptop. The lenovo died a couple weeks ago, so I got a new battery for the Stealth and I'll use that as my regular laptop, but I don't like the idea of having it plugged into the eGPU all the time as my desktop with what happened to the last battery. So now there's going to be an empty space on my desk requiring a desktop (or macbook pro if I sell a kidney). I have two 27" dell monitors (SE2717H and S2716DG), the 1070 aorus eGPU (that I think I should probably sell to recoup some $ for the desktop), a Logitech 513 carbon keyboard, and G305 mouse. I've been keeping an eye on prices and availability - and I've not seen any GPUs available in my area except in pre-builts. There's a Canada Computers not far from here and they have this in my price range : https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=1446_1448&item_id=194305, no info on the motherboard, power supply or ram (that I can see). Otherwise, do I just pop open the eGPU, use the 1070 and build around that? Thoughts would be appreciated.

I'm an idiot. I didn't notice.

Question - Can't seem to get my eGPU on this thing. CPU is working, but GPU says "Waiting for idle" even though it's not set to work when idle.