Is this to say that the athenas for the price would be okay, even though not the best. By the way I bought the Onkyo 606, amazon had it for $325. I also picked up some cheap bookshelves. Polk audio T-15. They sound a lot better than the sonys did. Don't know how big of a deal it is, only because I have not seen any specs on the axiom speakers, nevertheless I see or at least I think I see How much sensitivity and freq response have a lot to do with the way a speaker sounds....... But if you take two different speakers with the same specs, and each have different designs, outside and inside, how much does this affect the sound quality