At one point recently, I was thinking about hanging a 50-60 inch on the living room wall with a sound bar beneigh it, so I investegated sound bars at several Best Buy stores, Magnolia stores have better stuff. Of those I saw, the inexpensive ones were crap. Those around $1000 sounded good, as long as you didn't expect much in the way of low or high end. But the midrange was pretty good. Acoustic guitars sounded excellent on it, but you would strain to hear any cymbals.