Yeah, I'm not into the idea of shipping them back having to pay the shipping cost. I mean the speakers sound fairly decent to begin with, it's just I'm used to a little "brighter" sound and these little guys push out a lot of bass. I've heard some receivers are "warmer" sounding while others are "brighter" with a Denon being the former and a Yamaha being the latter.

I was thinking of skipping buying one of the big box A/V receivers and going with a 2 channel amp from Rotel or NAD but they can be a bit pricey. Do you think the price difference would be realized in a discernible sound improvement?