Just let your friend get what he wants. Speakers are so much of a personal preference and in the end they will be grinding on you if they dont like what you suggested.
Here are the Mirage that I listened to in a local dealer and as a 5.1 system it was great, but really didnt impress me much for 2ch for the price.
Mirage Omnisat I have a friend that was hell bent on a Sharp LCD because it was the most expensive panel they could find and "plasmas burn in". I later found out that the video processor in it doesnt fully resolve a 1080P test pattern and it processes standard def much worse than my JVC HDILA.
I'm happy and he still tells himself he is despite the pic quality difference. Some people dont want to hear advice.
