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Wow, that's expensive shipping. Where do you find that data without entering all your info in checkout?

I second Robb's idea, tempt him with the F.O. M3's only a few bucks more and well worth it.

As for Receivers I would be thinking refurb I found these at ecost, I know they have some onkyos around that price point as well.

Max shipping plus ins coast to coast.

Just guessing.

My shipping was $41

Now I have M3s and an MMC, but he asked for cheap. I'm just trying to help. They are not bad speakers and not a bad little receiver either for the dollars spent. But they are not M3s either!

Peter, although even the outlet M3s are a little beyond the specified budget, if it can be stretched a bit, that would be the highly-recommended buy. If not, a nice buy is available now(about $190 with free shipping)on the Infinity Beta 10 .

A nice HT receiver which would allow for future expansion into surround is the Onkyo 304 factory refurb from shoponkyo.com. With a $10 credit for registering with "Club Onkyo" and an additional 10% off sale the next two weeks the net price would be about $97, with free shipping.

Hi Peter,

Based on the pricing criteria established in your post, I'd like to echo bugbitten's x-series recommendations. I've heard the x-ls speakers and was quite impressed by them. It is a relief to find some "budget" speakers which are good enough to be considered a real value. Although, my opinion is no guarantee your friend would see things the same, I feel confident in recommending them.

Regrettably, I have no experience with the Polk or JBL speakers so am unable to comment on them.

Were it me, I would tend to trust JohnK's receiver suggestions.

I had forgotten about those Hsu speakers, have you had a chance to hear them Rick?

No I haven't but these are what I plan on getting for a bedroom system. I will most likely in the beginning of the New Year. I do have the Hsu Ventriloquist system along with two of their subs. I expect the quality to be at least on par with the other products.

Ok, care to elaborate on the Ventriloquists? Their subs are a good bargain, so it would stand to reason the same about the rest of the speaker line, but as we all know just because a company makes one good product sometimes they miss on another.

Yeah, Rick and Jason, I briefly thought about the Hsu in making my suggestion, but it runs nearly the same as the outlet M3s, so I mentioned them, but picked the Infinities for the under $200 delivered target.