My impression of the HT-XT1 is that it's *not* a high fidelity device. Unfortunately, the downward-firing drivers push the sound in all sorts of directions, reverberating around in the space behind your TV, etc.

If you want to listen to music or movies and have it sound like a proper multichannel sound system, buy something else. If you want a low-visual solution to make a skinny-bezel TV sound kinda better than the useless built-in speakers, and you want all the HDMI/CEC/ARC goodness and UI simplicity, then the Sony is for you.

That said, with some acoustic foam and a bunch of tinkering, I'll bet you could make the Sony an awful lot better than it sounds in my parents' place.