In the quest for a decent set of loud speakers, I have been reading so many forum posts my eyes hurt. Taking advice, I drove to audition a bunch of speakers. Much to my dismay, it was much easier to tell the "good" speakers from the "REALLY good" speakers and I quickly realized that books shelve speakers were not going to do it for me. I auditioned a BUNCH of different polks that never really did it for me, some Totems that sounded nice but were too expensive, I liked the larger, floor standing Paradigms, until I learned the ones that didn't sound hollow to me were $1,700 a pair.
So after reading several good reviews of the Rocket RS850's and their similarity to the RS 760's I decided to try and purchase a pair of 760's. After all, they are on "sale" right now, everyone says they are beautifully finished, and even though I can't audition them, I could always send them back. So I pop them and a center channel into my shopping cart, put my visa info and in and WHAM!!
$356 shipping. THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS? Is someone carrying them here on a bicycle? I know they are heavy but that amounts to almost half of the cots of the 760's and pretty much puts them out of my price range.
Does it usually cost that much to ship a set of speakers? If it costs that much, why would anyone send them back if they weren't "thrilled" with them,, you would end up pissing away almost $700!
Perhaps I should go to Fry's and buy a set of infinity beta 50's and be done with it.
