yes it nevers hurts to shop around. but price and quality axiom puts out is very hard to beat. but if you got the money the skys the limit i guess. but i think his ears were a little off that day to say energy c-7 was a better sound then axiom. for the simple reason the c-9 was better then the c-7 and still didn't have the sound the axiom m60s had. the whole thing just comes off like hes bashing the product without even having it. because his reveiw of the two speakers is way off. i mean energy sounded fair but not even close to the m60s.thats comparing the c-9 sound against the m60s.the c-7 well thats a whole different story. not to bash the speakers because everybody likes different sound but i really didn't like them compared to the axioms.