I was contemplating an expensive speaker system with woofers and other expensive components

However, if you just want reasonable decent quality sound (better than most TV's speakers) at an affordable price - I recommend the TV Ears Wireless Speaker System.

As for the music it was sharper and better than my expensive stereo system

If I were to do it over again I would spend and another $100 and get a better sound system.

I highly recommend this system as we all know most modern TV's have poor quality sound.

We can lower the volume to nearly nothing on the TV and the speaker still works but when we mute the TV, the system mutes as well.