I use a Sony micro hi-fi system but more often headphones. I once won a midrange Logitech surround sound system for gaming in a lottery but the sound quality was noticeably worse than my Sony so I sold it off.

Clearly you are an individual with taste and quality. :P

You would be surprised... Especially in the 8th gen. - Call of Duty even uses uncompressed audio these days.

I live across the road to a fire station/work. - If people don't like noise... Kinda the stupidest place to live.

That unit is not really a soundbar in the normal sense, as it has surround sound speakers. Nevertheless, it is not possible for that to give you real Dolby Atmos sound. Dolby Atmos is all about sound from above, and in the same way that a soundbar cannot give you real surround sound, it also cannot give you Atmos.

In the case of this "soundbar" in particular, it has rear speakers. So, it can give you 5.1 surround. However, since it has rear speakers, it's not really a soundbar anymore.  Without speakers above you though, it's Atmos cabilities have to be very limited.  Bouncing sound off the ceiling is just not the same. 

With all of that said, I'm going to make a point to hear the sound bar in action sometime soon. I've got to say that the price tag sounds incredibly high, so I want to hear what you get for that money.

Considering that price tag, why did you choose this system instead of a more traditional surround sound setup?

This. Also I play a lot in VR and headphones are way better for that.

I heard the Soundbar in action which actually sold me on buying it. The Rep played a movie where an Arrow was fired and I heard the Arrow whiz over my head, It honestly blew me away and this was in a big open shopping centre. The System offers two top speakers on the Bar itself and 2 top speakers on the rear speakers that basically lobs the sound in the room creating that atmosphere sound quality. Its really clever.

I think Soundbars have come a long way, with the newer bars out there, they are delivering some fancy tech and clever ways at delivering the same sort of sound without the need for a massive Amp etc. I recommend you listen to the Samsung N950 or a flagship model from any major brand and listen for yourself. They are quite impressive.

As for the big question, why did I opt to go a Soundbar system over a traditional home theatre system? Well it was hard, for the price I could have gotten a decent home theatre system however it took a flagship model from Samsung to win me over. I guess its the simplicity of the unit, the fact you don't need a heavy Amp laying around the room or placing each individual speaker in set positions.

While I have 4 Bose 900 series speakers, I almost never use them. It may have been a year since I've used them for gaming. I usually just use my TV speakers at a standard volume. Maybe it's time to sell them...

The thing with good quality stand alone speakers is that they sound great at any volume. Head phones always place the sound in my head, it sounds much better if the sound has some room to breathe. My big open living room with vaulted ceiling and wood all around sounds much better than my dedicated home theater which is a square box room with concrete on 2 sides and concrete under the wood floor. Speakers are only half of the equation, the room plays as big a part in sound quality.

That said, I rarely get to use it at full volume. Yet when I'm home alone, movie time, 5.1 linear PCM, turn it up and let it wash over me. Plus some games need that subwoofer, thumper isn't thumper without it. No use playing with headphones in VR when there's no real bass.

HDMI 2.0 is a pain though. My receiver only passes through 1.4, so it's either uncompressed sound or 4K picture. Bad design, why can't it handle sound and picture differently. By the time I upgrade my amp there will probably be a newer incompatible HDMI on the horizon... I have no clue why ARC can't do linear PCM either. The cables are not directional and it's only using it one way when I need ARC. I guess the controllers are one way. Bad design.

Anyway, if games use uncompressed audio nowadays, no wonder they are huge!

AV-Receiver with higher quality DIY speakers (basically default for tv-sound) or Beyerdynamic respectively modded Superlux headphones or HyperX Cloud.

Though i usually don't listen at high volumes my sub is 15" and fronts are 10" coaxial speakers. Center and rears are smaller though.

They have come a long way. But there is still a big divide between what a Soundbar can do... And what a proper setup can do.
I think of sound bars as more or less glorified TV speakers... Only so far you can take things when the audio is coming out of a single fixed point in a small form factor with low power levels.

I bought one for a couple hundred bucks once and gave it away to a mate, such devices will not be welcomed in this Christian household again.

The thing with headphones is... How could I possibly let me neighbors know what my favorite music is? Or what movie I am watching? Haha

But in all seriousness... I prefer not to wear headphones... I am at home to relax and chillout, chances are I will have friends/family/co-workers with me... Not exactly going to hand out a set of headphones to everyone.
Plus, often I will chuck some music on via Spotify on the Xbox One X and then go jump on the computer or go do some yard work or something.

I love bassy music. So you are talking my language here!

I don't even use my receivers HDMI pass through. - Everything goes to my TV, my TV then outputs to the receiver via optical audio... I get all my cake and eat it too.

Titanfall had 35GB of uncompressed audio.

Personally I would prefer lossless compression. - You loose zero quality, you gain HDD space, seems to be a thing that is gaining traction as game sizes begin to balloon. (I.E. Doom 2016 takes this approach.) - Caveat is that you need to use some CPU cycles for decompression duties.

SO this might be slightly off topic but still on the subject of audio.

Basically what I want to know is do wireless headsets connect to PS4’s through the DualShock 4? The reason I think it does is my friendship headset was making a horrible basey noise every time he spoke, he eventually bought a new headset for a lot of money. This new headset didn’t change much except the noise wasn’t so basey. We decided to just ignore it although it was hard to listen to while playing it’s been happening for months now. Well now he just got a new controller for Xmas and I’ve just played blackout with him and the noise has gone, it’s the same headset wirelessly connected but it’s bow clear as day. It’s making me think the headset somehow uses the Bluetooth inn the controllers.