rave review on AR home theatre speaker system

The longer you are into this hobby and read all the rave reviews from mags that are getting pd to sell you what they rave about. Go listen for yourself. I've often found unadvertised brands and models to surprise and sound better than a mags raved product review. Best to listen for yourself. Don't always believe what you read, not saying all rave reviews are untrue. What sounds good to a reviewer in the reviewers own particular listening room and products used can be quite surprisingly oppsite for your room and equipment. It's just not as cut and dry or a blanketed statment as to how any given product will sound for all people and situations. Listen to a product in your own room with your own components and then decide. Too many are asking for simple answers and getting different answers. Listen for yourself can only be the sure way for you to decide. Good hunting

I subscribe;and unless you want to listen to everything in the price range for yourself-- I'd take their opinion and save myself the time. $799 a pair, speakers can't have much demand put upon them. A complete system /w/sub for that price --wattayawant??

I read the above referenced review and have to say that it was one of the most spectacular reviews I have ever read in my life and TPV aint exactly Stero Review. I jumped on the web the next day to find somewhere to hear them. Unfortunately, good luck, not many places do so. I finally found a retailer that had them set up for audition (Bernie's in Orange, CT). The verdict: Bernies is like a giant appliance store with a high ambient noise level. The set-up was less than ideal and they had the speakers powered by a so-so receiver. Nevertheless, the sound was fantastic, build quality marvelous, piano black finish gorgeous and the price??? I'm in the process of redoing a 5.1 channel system and while I'm deciding what I ultimately want to do I'm thinking of getting a set of these just to tide me over. Maybe I'll fall in love and keep them. How can you go wrong? A word to the wise...go to one of the internet search engines like Yahoo shopper and do some price comparisons. The review had this set at $799, Bernies was selling them for $699 and believe it or not I saw them at under $500 (can't vouch for the sleaze factor of all vendors). One more thing...just for fun, check out this review. You'd think the guy was talking about having a three-way with Carmen Electra and Anna Nicole Smith. Schwing!