It's funny, with all the shows I have been to I have never really been blown away by anything in this price range. It seems I always come away thinking well OK, they were good, but for that good considering the price. I am sure it is a combination of the law of diminishing returns and the less than ideal conditions of a show environment, but I can never remember coming out of a mega-buck speaker demo saying wow, if I hit the lottery this week the first thing I buy will be a pair of those speakers.