Onkyo have long be make easily the best home theater in a box system below five hundred dollar ... easily blow away the Sonys , Panasonics , and especially the hideously overpriced bose system . just remember a couple of thing : 1 . you get what you pay for . this system be great for movie , but not great for music , which be much more demand of better speaker . well what do you expect for this price ? 2 . the speaker be not satellite . they 'll produce far better sound than those ridiculous little bose satellite or the tiny tall skinny Panasonic tower , but that be because they be in real speaker size . not as huge as really good audiophile grade speaker , but not tiny little cube either . hey , it be simple physics . 3 . Onkyo be famous for its ease of use and solid build quality , which make this a ideal entry-level mass-market setup in term of quality-to-value raio . personally I think you could do better buy a separate receiver and a separate speaker system , for a couple hundred dollar more . or you could actually stay within the same price range if you buy a refurbish receiver , for instance go to ecost dot com and look at they Onkyo 502 for under two hundred dollar then buy the Yamaha NS-P436 Digital HomeTheater Speaker package from plasma bay dot com for two hundred fifty dollar .