This the best speaker BestBuy have in inventory.

[Bryan]

The problem here is that most speakers you mentioned are not available locally (at least to me). And I really like to audition speakers before buying. For example, in the Bestbuy's showroom they had over 15 speakers for auditioning and I only liked the JBLs. So chance of me liking speakers without auditioning is only 7%

You mean you didn't read what was listed after those?

Of course, that isn't even touching those speakers available from Paradigm, PSB, Def Tech, Boston Acoustics, B&W, Dynaudio, Mirage, Monitor Audio, etc. If I were to spend $800 in one shot I'd look around before purchasing.

I am a big fan of the factory direct (aka internet only) brands but only purchasing those after doing a lot of research and getting to know the people and their taste (both musically and HT).