It depend if you listen music and films in stereo or the crap they call 5.1 ( home theater ). If you listen only in stereo than a pair of edifier s2000pro is top rated, and the speakers have an included amplifier and all the needed inputs. I only listen everything in stereo and everything is fine and everyone I know had problems when they tried to install and listen 5.1 home cinema systems . Even in real big cinema theater, everything is in STEREO only, but they lied since the seventees with lies like , 3d, surround, Quadrophenia, etc. It is just that sometime they start for a while a speaker somewhere with a special effect, usually vibrating bass bursts. They cannot implement any of these ' standard' because it don't work . In films studio, everything is mixed with one image and 2 channels sound. They should stop trying to kill the market with ' surround ' and instead produce and record nice music and films in stereo with the old 16 bits sound. Sound technicians are now unable to process audio files because each and all digital sound recorders works with incompatible standards. Also since 1980, they introduced computers in music production and only a small proportion of musicians succeeded in creating some interesting songs like gary numan and nine inch nails.