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I think you guys are underestimating what people do and do not notice. In this day and age, EVERYONE notices brands of things. Plus M2s and M3s are about three times the size of your average HTIB speaker.

Come on. . it was almost working!

it sounded good in theory, i could see doing it. maybe his relatives are old, with poor eyesight, or have memory problems it just might work!

I like this plan. This is a good plan. This just might work.

all very funny and interesting ideas.. except for the one about "burning the house down".. seemed a tad bit extreme..

my buddy and his wife went out of town this weekend, so i am gonna try and talk with him today.. i goal is to get him to bring the HTIB over to my house, and we can hook everything up, and i can show him just how bad it will sound. plus, i hope that once he hears mine by comparison, he will see that this is a no-brainer decision to take them back.

as far as i am aware, they only spent a little over $200 bucks for the box set(are you kidding me?), so i just dont expect a lot from these speakers.

so, will have to wait til tonight and see if he brings them over. i am sure any decision will take a few days. but, she did buy them in austin, so they will have to make a trip there to return them. i am going there this weekend myself, so it would be real easy for me to offer to return the sony set for them.. just kinda sweeten the deal a bit.

bigjohn

Am I the only one who sees what is going on here? This was a deliberate, (potentially) evil, pre-emptive move by the wife to keep the husband from spending much money on the sound system. She went to her family with "You have to help me keep my husband from spending $____ on a bunch of speakers that are too big and ugly and will ruin the look of our room. Go out and get a really cheap - but most importantly really small - system and give it to him as a gift to get him over this home theater phase he is going through so I can spend that money on something else."
Depending on the family's financial situation it may be the right fiscal answer, but it is something the two of them should come to together. Because of this, I am willing to bet that it is so not about the sound that no amount of convincing with comparisons to good speakers will change her mind...

Paranoid much?

If I were married, and found out my wife did that - I'm afraid I'd have to kill her.

foghorn- i definitely dont think there was any devious intentions on her part.. i think she was truly trying to do something nice, and just had no idea about sound quality, HTIB's, etc. i think she was more motivated by price than anything else. she saw what looked like a BIG system at a small price, and just jumped on it.

this is still a situation is process, so i am just waiting to see how it turns out.. all i can do is attempt to guide him in the right direction, and hope he follows my directions. if not, then the best i can do is at least get him to buy a good receiver, and then in a few years when the sony micros blow out, he will at least have a good receiver to build on.

bigjohn

Maybe you should guide him to something with 200-400-WPC and see EXACTLY how far you can push the Sonys.