Small amp or all in 1 choice?


My wife and I are in the process of building a small 850 SF Florida vacation home. It will be ready early fall 2024. We are going to put 4 ceiling mounted speakers in the entertainment/living room for viewing tv and streaming music. The TV will be on the wall above a small fireplace with a 14" X 60" granite shelf above the fireplace to hold the electronics, router etc. I am going with a simple "lean and clean" look so no visible speakers in front. I want an "All in One" unit that will accept an HDMI/Arc connection for TV and also have the internal DAC for streaming background music. I was looking at the SVS wireless Pro soundbase but it only drives 2 speakers so I either need to find a similar all in one with HDMI ARC input that can power all 4 speakers or find a small outboard amp to drive the other pair of speakers. My wife is sensitive to to the shrill sounding cheap amps so that needs to be considered.  I really do not want to put a lot of money into this as the house is expensive and taxing the funds. We are starting from scratch here and EVERYTHING is new, tv, appliances, furniture, etc. I looked at the Cambridge stuff but $3000 is too much money for the model that drives 4 speakers so I think I just need to find a nice outboard amp to mate with the SVS. Any suggestions as to what to look at? I've been through the stuff on Crutchfield. I guess I'd like to be around $400-$500 for the amp, of if there is a all in one that drives 4 speakers and has the HDMI input like $1200-$1500 all in? Any ideas? Also I know I could just buy a HT Receiver but wanted to keep things smaller in scale to fit the shelf @ 14 inches deep. A receiver won't fit.

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Is having a receiver in another room or closet an option? Then just use apple tv into the receiver with earc. You will need to run hdmi and speaker wires thru walls but everything will be out of site - clean look. You can then do 5.1ch easily and have a great sound with in wall speakers (center, mains, rear, in wall sub). In addition, Apple TV can stream qobuz and tidal. So you get music as well. 

OK guys, please check your audiophile hats at the door here. (I know it's hard when sound quality is so important to you, i understand i have a $65K dedicated 2Ch system myself) I fully understand the compromise in SQ. I don't care. I don''t have room for hide away gear, it is what it is. I just want to better hear the TV and maybe stream some background music. I don't have 17 inches of shelf to put a A/V Receiver on, I just want something small, unobtrusive on the shelf below the TV. I am looking into a Cambridge EVO 150 if I can get it to fit my shelf. But it's more than i wanted to spend. Thanks, I was holing maybe someone knew of a small outboard Class D amp or something I was not aware of. I do not want to add a sub, no where to put it. 

some interesting threads on Fosi tiny intergrateds...I'm running some Avalon Ascendants with a $60 Fosi and WiiM Pro Plus streamer (they make 3)...sounds great..and yes, I also have a bigger main system...

you can get a quality home theater receiver from shopgoodwill.com (Marantz, Denon, Yamaha, etc. from the mid 2000s). It will cost you a solid $30. I did it, no regrets. Set the seller location, to avoid $20+ shipping. 10s of decent models to choose from every week