Thanks for the input B4TB...

I doublechecked w/ my friend on whether his intention was primarily to provide a home theater experience or did he plan on "rocking out" with this setup, and he admitted that smaller was better in this case (taking into account a wife's wishes) and that he leaned more toward this being a home theater, so I suppose that in effect detracts from the necessity for the system to playback full range music in an authentic manner. The 30-day money back on Hsu's package is a good selling point and I reinforced to him that buying all this at once and demo'ing it asap is really important. I look forward to providing you guys w/ feedback.