My budget for a secondary pair of bookshelf speakers started pretty tight. I think these are great speakers (exceptional for their price), but I ended up going with more expensive speakers. These are in Cherry and in excellent condition. http://www.avreview.co.uk/news/article.asp?UAN=474&SP=&V=1 FWIW, here are my comments when I got them: http://forums.audioholics.com/forums...5&postcount=90 Cheers, Kurt