Personally, I dont think ultra high end speakers really have a place in home theater. If you are talking about critical music listening, the ones mentioned are ALL worthy, but, in Home Theater, its a bit of an overkill. Why? Simple, the demands placed are not that great to begin with. We are talking operating in a freqeuncy range of a very limited 80 to around 10 to 12k most of the time. Companies lie M&K understand this and design there speakers with this in mine. The use of the subwoofer, a NECESSITY for true hOME Theater application , has changed the rules. I,myself, have several systems I play around with, including expensive Walsh 5 loudspeakers, yet, I find a simlple B&W CDM series actually works better in Theater, but I could NEVER settle for them in big /full scale(w/o sub) music reproduction. Thats where those speaker mention can REALLY pull there weight!