Silence is golden.

Where our reviewers at? Usually, when we sell something around here, at least a few of the people who bought it come back to that day’s forum discussion to tell us how it went. It’s kinda how things work around here. But all 200 people who bought this Onkyo Dolby Atmos receiver last time must be too busy having their minds blown to post a review.

Obviously, they’re spending every waking hour watching movies with 3D audio, exploring the literal new dimension of sound that an Atmos receiver brings. They’re lost in a rapturous haze of sonic ecstasy, exploring the echoing canyons and resonant vistas of planet Atmos, a place where your eyes and ears and hands and tongue merge into a single organ of pure synesthetic sensation.

Or so we assume. That’s the kind of effect Dolby Atmos has on people. You know how surround sound has a few speakers spread out in a circle around you? A couple in front, a couple to the sides, a couple in back? When you jump up from 5.1 to 7.1 or whatever, you’re adding more points to that flat plane. Eventually, you can barely tell that you’ve added more speakers.

Well, 3D audio systems like Dolby Atmos add a couple of speakers up high. If you’re watching a movie with Atmos, sound isn’t just coming at you from front to back, or side to side, but from on high, too. The plane becomes a sphere: 3D sound. Unlike 3D video, you don’t need to wear glasses and it might not even give you a headache. Now would you rather be immersing yourself in ultra-real sound, or writing an amateur review in some goofy little online store’s discussion board?

Besides, what would they have to add? The Wirecutter has already named this very receiver its alternate top pick, saying it “matches (their top pick) feature-for-feature” except for the setup wizard. And that was when it cost $440. That basically makes this deal, in Wirecutter terms, the second-best receiver value in the world plus an extra hundred and sixty bucks.

They love it over at Slickdeals, too, enough to land our deal on the front page of the site the last time we sold it.

The gadget experts have weighed in. The cheapskates have weighed in. And if our customers are still too enraptured to tear themselves away long enough to add their voices to the chorus, well, who can blame them? Sometimes, no reviews is good reviews.