Gonk and Bob Becker, I really could not agree more with both of you. Unfortunately, at the time I was purchasing my first "hi-fi" system, I had a certain budget opportunity that I could wrap up into new house expenses, very limited time (given family, work, and moving cross country), and a wife who barely tollerates the system at all ("why do we need anything other than a TV? ...." on most days but she does like the system when watching movies or listening to music) and she would not be agreeable to me taking weeks to check out various systems and/or home demo various speakers. Therefore, reading on the internet and in magazines was my only viable option. The reason I actually picked Oliver Stone's system to model after was because it was featured in one of the magazine's I happened to purchase, and the NHT speaker prices were not out of this world; and in the article Oliver said that listening to his system made him feel like he was in the studio listening to and editing the soundtrack to the "Doors" movie which he produced. Therefore, I thought that level of sound quality was probably good enough for my purposes. Besides, sufing the internet and reading opinion in the Saloon and other reviews was how I found out about Outlaw, which I am sure you will all agree has pretty incredible equipment for the price; and which allowed me to know that the Outlaw products were probably pretty good and justifiable substitutes for the much more expensive Paradigm products in Oliver Stone's system.