So they bought him a Sony 7.1 HTIB, that does not include a receiver, boy Sony is getting cheap these days? All I can say is that my budy purchased a Sony HTIB recently that did include a receiver and DVD combination, once we even turned it up slightly the speakers sounded awful and distorted. He didn't have a lot of $$$$ to spend so he took it back and found a nice Yamaha setup with DVD and seperate receiver and it does sound 100% better, although not up to par with my Axiom system.



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