[KineticTroi]

Consumer audio has seemed to have lagged behind other technologies by seemingly 20 years. Why? It's a great question. I had once thought self powered speakers would take over audio, but never seems to happen. Look at all of the TV's being sold with terrible audio built in. We still seem to be dickering about with consumer love for the 3.5 mechanical audio jack. There are some really cool t-class amps on ebay with Bluetooth. Perhaps combined with an hdmi surround audio extractor, also on ebay, you could custom build something to your needs. You might have a hard time syncing all of the separate audio channels with Bluetooth though.