These are to avoid. Do not be fooled by their nice looks. It is a recipe for disaster as you will soon find out, if you waste your time (and money) buying them. Do not be fooled by Bose's Better Sound Through Research - utter nonsense. These are the poorest and terrible sounding speakers I have ever heard. They win this losing contest with flying colors. As you can see, i cannot hide my loathe for these bent wooden boxes. If you are a music lover, you will be very disappointed with these. I use them with NAD C352 Award Winning Amplifier which shows all their flaws mercilessly. I use Chord interconnects throughout. I use the NAD C521 BEE CD player. When watching movies I use them with Yamaha's RXV-1500 7 channel amplifier and the Bose VCS - 30 - Series II surround sound speakers which consists of an equally good looking but bad sounding centre and surround speakers. I have to admit to watching movies these sound a little better (but who knows what a Space ship really sounds like!).