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OK..... so I got new furniture in my viewing room, which revealed the previously hidden speaker wire running up the wall to my wall mounted surrounds. So, I started shopping for speaker stands to hide the wire in. I quickly realized that decent furniture quality speaker stands that allow you to run the wire up the base were at least $100 each. Which of course got me thinking...... for that money I could get some cheapo towers for the rears and probably have better sound than the Klipsch S1's I was using.

I stopped at Best Buy today to start fleshing out options...... and low and behold.. set up in their listening area..... a pair of Klipsch F1's on open box special for $150 each(regular $260.)

While waiting for a sales person, I did a full inspection and saw only one minor scruff that will probably clean off with a good polish. They had them hooked up as mains, so when the sales person came over I had them crank them up so I could make sure there were no sound defects. They sounded great.

All in all it worked out great because when I came up with the idea of using towers for surrounds, my first thought was the F1's because I have the F2's as front and a C2 as the center. But I didn't want to pay over $500 to replace the rears I just bought 3 months ago.

The wife won't be THRILLED, but one thing she definately understands is 50% off....... LOL