I’m with you on this. Soundbars made great progress, but the great ones are still great “soundbars”.

If you have the space, go 2.1 bookshelves instead of soundbar+sub.

For me it’s Goldschlager. Got a bad experience with it and the strong “cinnamon” smell made this aversion last even 20 years later…

Of course I read this the very same week I migrated from YouTube Premium / Music specifically since it looked like it did not have unitedstatian links.

Sadly the distributions I tried did not open the required port(s) on the built-in firewall (Bazzite and CachyOS, for two).

I would suggest to disable any firewall and check if you can pair.