All,

Thanks for your responses. Yes, that's both speakers for $600, and they are new. This friend of mine also happens to be a dealer and runs his own shop here in the city where I live. I forgot to mention that I do have a sub...a Velodyne ULD-10E1. It's a little old, but still works for my purposes. But that being said, Carl's advice is well taken. I should listen to several other sets. It's easy to get tunnel (or is it aural? lol ) vision when you're being presented with such a good deal. And to address Carl's other question...a fine point. My question however, better stated, is are there any technical issues with such a speaker/reciever pair up? The current set of speakers that I have have an impedance of 8ohms. The set I'm looking at have a rating of 6. I don't want to cook my receiver and if I need to buy a new one, I will. Recommendations in this arena are welcome. Your opinions of even just name brands would be helpful.