I have not posted much these days I have been reading lots not just on this board but many others. What I have noticed is that many speaker companies are selling their products at box stores. My point about Levi's at walmart is : theyare still Levi's made from the same company , yes maybe the lil tab on the back is a different color, but we don't knock someone down cause they bought them at another store and not a Jeans boutique.
There are many speaker makers that make great products, sure they may have a lesser quality product in the box stores but that lesser quality product is by far better than alot of those , hmm how to be polite here.....plastic encased HT systmes than can be purchased for a almost nothing.

To get back to my point now is that I am happy to see quality speaker companies selling their products to the mass market maybe in 100 yrs everyone will have a good system due to the fact that some peeps are intimidated to walk in to the higher end shops wich will sell the same speaker but at a tad highre price due to overhead and other factors.

Now Im not saying get rid of all the high end specialty stores not at all, but good on the companies trying to sell their quality (but budget) speakers to the mass.

I know this may cause lots of posts all I was trying to say was don't beat on the peeps who buy "mass market"