I buy this at christmas time . it sound alright but i could not help but notice the speaker kind of suck , except for the sub . I order some polk audio monitor 60 series ii tower and now my music sound great . the receiver be also pretty really really good and have many option to make it sound good . the biggest problem i have be that the stock wire be only like 24 g and when i run my back surround hardly any noise would come out of they due to loss of signal . after get better , thicker speaker wire , the system start to sing ! the speaker do not sound so bad anymore . actually they sound pretty good but i know they do not sound as good as my polk tower because during a movie they be a type writer and you could hear the typing from leave to center to right and every time it get to the center channel you would notice a different sound than that of the tower . definitely not as good as the polk . I run Dolby pro logic with for movie and direct for music which use the two tower and the sub only . sound amazing ! can not beat the price . you will laugh at people go to walmart to buy home theater because you know that do you home work be well worth it and you get the better deal .