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Empty canvas: recommendations on blending audio and moving watching

I am in the process of finishing my basement, including a room approximately 20' x 25'x that I plan to use for both TV/movie watching and audio listening.

I enjoy an occasional streaming program on HBO or Netflix and in my current TV room I have the TV connected to a set of stand-mount speakers driven by a small amp - more than use the TV speakers, but not a big 5.1 surround sound set up (something I've never been that interested in).

For the new room I am excited to finally move forward with a tube-based system (my prior years have all been SS) with speakers such as Devore O/96 (or Gibbon Super 9).  My question is, if this is the audio configuration, what to do with the TV audio?  Running TV audio through sensitive speakers like Devore doesn't seem like a good idea.  Would a speaker bar for the TV suffice?  Or is there another configuration for the TV sound that would be better.

Recommendations welcome!
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elevick
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Digital out from the tv will work fine.
However, to get real movie sound you either need a sound bar, center channel speaker or similar.
Most TV's have crummy sound.  However, some of the nicer TV's have some higher quality sound built in, including ATMOS.  Look at the LG OLED TV's.  Not cheap but amazing picture and the sound will do a decent job.  I have the 65 and the sound is fairly good.
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