u/Realtoropenhouse3

Moving into a pretty small place (8' 10" wide living room, 664 sq ft 2 BR apartment) but upgrading my old 46" Sharp Aquos TV to a 55" LG C5.

I'm going to buy a soundbar for the first time, so literally anything will sound great compared to the 15 year old built in speaker in the 2011 Sharp Aquos. Honestly, I am buying the soundbar for aesthetics as much as anything else and I'm not ashamed to admit that. I am not an audiophile. Living in an apartment - a tiny one - I can't blast it anyway so sound is really secondary for this. Money is not an issue. I have a few Marshall bluetooth speakers and a well curated mid-century modern/Japandi aesthetic throughout my new place, so I am set on a Marshall soundbar to match the overall design of the place - either the Heston 60 or 120.

I know conventional wisdom is that the soundbar should be close to the TV width both for aesthetics and sound, which would push me towards the 120, which I was planning on getting.

However, once I went to Best Buy and saw both the 120 and 60 in person, I started having doubts about the 120. The 120 is pretty deep and tall in person which is pretty imposing. The other issue is that the 120 would require the TV to be raised slightly as it will block the very bottom of the screen.

Would a Heston 60 at ~29" wide look stupid under a 55" TV? I'm huge on buying stuff that actually fits the small space, so I don't want anything too large or imposing either.

Wife and I are going to amicably divorce in 2027, she has been living in Japan since 2023. She still has a US Verizon phone number I've been paying for for the last three years (esim has just been turned off the whole time).

She is coming home to visit so we can close on the sale of our house next month, at which point we also want to switch banks, and I want to cancel her Verizon service so she will then no longer have a US phone number.

Currently we just have a joint account at our small local credit union so I just put money in there and she pulls it out at an ATM in Japan. I want to basically have her be able to do the same, but without a joint account.

I'm looking for a major US bank where we can both have individual accounts (she can use my address, as I said we are amicable) but where I can quickly and instantly transfer money from my individual account to her individual account, that she can then pull out of an ATM in Japan.

Most important thing here is that beyond initial account setup, it cannot require dependency on a US phone number at any point thereafter - any two factor authentication or anything whatsoever after initial setup has to be able to be done with an email address instead since she's no longer going to have a US phone number once we get this set up and finally cancel her Verizon service.

Is my best option something like having us both have a Capital One 360 checking account with Zelle and use email to set up the Zelle portion?

Or am I barking up the wrong tree altogether by trying to do this as a US account --> US account transfer and I should use a different method where she doesn't need a US account at all?

Wife and I are going to amicably divorce in 2027, she has been living in Japan since 2023. She still has a US Verizon phone number I've been paying for for the last three years (esim has just been turned off the whole time).

She is coming home to visit so we can close on the sale of our house next month, at which point we also want to switch banks, and I want to cancel her Verizon service so she will then no longer have a US phone number.

Currently we just have a joint account at our small local credit union so I just put money in there and she pulls it out at an ATM. I want to basically have her be able to do the same, but without a joint account.

I'm looking for a major US bank where we can both have individual accounts (she can use my address, as I said we are amicable) but where I can quickly and instantly transfer money from my individual account to her individual account, that she can then pull out of an ATM in Japan.

Most important thing here is that beyond initial account setup, it cannot require dependency on a US phone number at any point thereafter - any two factor authentication or anything whatsoever after initial setup has to be able to be done with an email address instead since she's no longer going to have a US phone number once we get this set up and finally cancel her Verizon service.

Is my best option something like a Capital One 360 checking account with Zelle and use email to set up the Zelle portion?