No doubt - I started buying about three months ago, with a budget of $5K, and was looking at much higher end speaker equipment. After hearing the rave reviews and listening to some comparable equipment, (and factoring in a $400 gift certificate from a freind for my wedding) my entire system - soup to nuts, will cost me less than $2000 - to include VP100, M60s, QS8s, Yammy 750, STF-2 and cables from PartsExpress.com.
Instead of wasting another 3K on expensive audio gear, we're going Japan in October instead.
Listen to teh B&W 703s, then buy the Axioms.
