Louis, welcome. You've now gotten three of the four attorneys who post fairly frequently here to reply(maybe 2x6 will also see this). It's great about your brother's graduation, but if he's going to be studying the next couple of months for the bar exam maybe you could delay a little bit with your gift. He's going to need to be hitting the books if the bar is coming up. Whenever you decide to go, if the budget that you mention is for a complete 5.1 setup I'd suggest to consider using the M2s as mains with a sub to reduce the cost.


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