big box store speakers

[dtowntke]

so i am a year in to my home theater hobby and its an enjoyable but expensive hobby. when i first started out i didn't now much about speakers or televisions for that matter in fact i still think i am lacking in the knowledge department on both of these subjects, but i think i learned a little in my year. my interest first started when i was about 13 my brother in law a rapper/producer got me hooked on sounds, i sat in his studio for hours apon hours going over every little sound that he was chopping and putting into his beats. from drums,hand claps, high hats, piano's, and horns he made sure he pointed our every detail and made sure i understood it. but i really never paid much attention to his equipment other then the mpc and the technique turntable. i went away to college (northern michigan university where the n stands for knowledge) and i discovered i was missing something in my music, so i bought a pair of bose. actually i don't know they model but these floor speakers rocked hard, they were in a wood cabinet had a 8inch woofer and a tweeter with plastic around it bought as i got older i felt i needed to get something new. so i went down to the electronic store and bought a pair os sony three way tower speakers better mids then the bose but didn't rock as hard then i figured what the hell i need something better so i bought a 7.1 av receiver and sold the bose put the sonys as my surrounds and bought polks rti8's. that is pretty much where i am know, but i learned of all these better speakers out there like paradigm,axiom,b&w, which took my by shock because in my ignorance i thought bose, polk and klipsch where top of the line but to my shock they weren't. so my next pair of speakers will be b&w 804s, dose any one know the price on these? but my question after this long story is what in your opinion is the best brand of speaker the the big box retailers carry?