The magnepans are fantastick for music. If the recording is a good recording you do feel like they are playing live in front of your. The sound stage is huge. For the money, nothing compares to them. They like well recorded music and poorly recorded music will sound like crap because they dont color the music like box speakers tend to do. They tend to be better for jazz, acoustic, vocal, classical and blues than hard rock because hard rock is all to often recorded poorly.

I have mine integrated with my HT and they work well.