I understand your lasagna story, however all I want to do is go locally to a few places and listem to what they have. I didn 't know if Energy, JBL, Polks would be a good comparison or not. I live in the Greater Vancouver BC area and would love a demo if anyone has Axioms. My games room which I'll be turning into the HT has 8' ceilings and is rectanglar except for the door entry. As far as the Receiver being 7:1 - I'd hate to not be able to add to it down the road when everthing is coming out in 7:1. Is this a fair assumption?