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I purchased all the speakers at one time but would not have hesitated to purchase piece by piece.

Obviously your wife needs to talk to my wife and help her understand priorities. I knew when the guy rolled the TV out of the back room at CC - just by the size of the box that I was in way deep. After looking at the 52" Sony since Thanksgiving, I asked her the other day, again, what she thought of the TV - now? Response - "it is still ridiculous". For me, when I watch a good High Def program like Discovery or some the the ESPN events, my mouth is still agape at how good it looks. Now, I want the audio to produce a similar, involuntary reaction......Rob

That seals it. All at once, in deep...

If she gets really mad and throws you out, you've still got the HT.

Well......truth is she is great and getting married to her was one of the best things that I ever did. Having said that - I read in another thread one of the guys wife made the comment that if she had closed her eyes she could have sworn Celine Dion was in the room. I may have to try the same tactic - only use a movie with Sam Elliot in it. If I could convince her that Sam was in the room, she might insist on a second center and a second sub!!

My wife is absolutely great. I'd never ask her to change anything about her. However, she doesn't have 'an ear' for music. She likes music would be happy listening to in on a clock radio. Same with movies. Surround effects don't impress her and she didn't care that the sub was shaking things up.

Or did she????

A few months after getting our new speakers, she went to spend the weekend with her Mom. When she got back, she told me that they rented some movies and that she could hardly bear to watch them as something was wrong with the sound. Nothing was 'wrong' with the sound, she was just listening through the 'so called' stereo speakers built into her Mom's TV.

I never heard anything but positive talk about our Axiom system since then.

Kinda piece by piece...M22 and VP150, then M80s, 1 QS8 and stand, now the VP500V3

My wife loves to watch movies on our Sony and Axioms....the other day she ask..why don't you hook up Satellite in the Theatre room so we can watch hockey there in hidef on the 52Sony instead of the 37Sonicview. And now she is sad because the flames lost.

This is eerily akin to what I've been doing. I have a list of configurations sorted by price including the HTR required for the day when $spouse and I argue^H^H^H^H^Hdiscuss how much I can spend.