Short and sweet, sound is about sound waves and the size of the wave..
Lets start with a TV, a TV has very small speakers playing downwards most of the time because of space and design. The amount of air a small little 3" speaker can move is very limited compared to a soundbar which probably has 5 or more 3 - 4" speakers playing forwards.
Now try and compare a sound bar with 10 small little 3" speakers playing in various directions to a set of Floorstanders - with a dedicated centre and rears, and I promise you the soundbar wont come even close to the volumes of air moved by the speakers.
Another two examples would be space vs sound:
Lets take a car, it's compact so speakers don't have to be particularly large and you still get a lot of sound.
Now lets take the opposite, imagine you are at a live rock concert, and instead of massive 25" subs x 100 they have 100 soundbars.. LOL! You can just imagine how shitty that would sound.
Although soundbars are a massive upgrade to TV sound it still sucks balls... Yes some very expensive ones do sound sweet, but for the price of that soundbar you can buy a full AV system with something like Onkyo RZ50 and Bentley acoustics which will blow it out of the park.
Some non believers would say, yes but its not just about size (yes size does matter) but also clarity, and YES duh! Obviously if you pick the correct speakers, your clarity, balance, detail, bass and vocals would be phenomenal.
Im not saying buy a set of entry level scrappies and you will destroy a top of the range soundbar, Im saying for the same amount of money you can definitely get a better system going than a soundbar. Especially when you want the versatility of adding more than one device like a Xbox + cd + bluray + pc etc etc.. and for music / movies / parties.
It all comes down to physics.. The volume of the speakers / the volume of the air moved.
Just my 2 cents without the cringe...
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