Blipvert wrote:

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 15:30:47 -0500, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:


If you're adamant about the $500 figure, the acronym to remember is "HTIB"
or "Home Theater In A Box".



That was something I neglected to mention in my first post... avoiding
HTIB was a high priority- I wanted to give them something that they
could transform into a very nice system down the road- which is why I
started off with the Onkyo A/V receiver. I shun all HTIBs as, believe
it or not, the weakness usually lies in the a/v receiver bundled with
the package, even though the speakers are usually quite bad as well.
They're really not much more than boom boxes with separates, and
they're the bane of the Best Buy/Circuit City market right now.

Even though the non-flexible price point meant that they ended up with
a set of CVs which would be right at home in an HTIB, at least... they
have possibilities down the road, and they can move the CVs to the
kid's game computer after investing in some quality.

Klipsch is prestigious, it's good for the ego.
If you add this : http://store.klipsch.com/details.asp?ProdID=8
All family ego would be flattered. ;-)