My Brother-in-law has $300 to spend on a pair of speakers that will be used for music and movies. Eventually he will finish it out to be a full 5.1 system. The receiver will be a Panny XR-55.

My question is, are the 200SEs the speakers to go with? I have heard all of the Ascend speakers except these and have loved all of them so my initial reaction was 200SEs are the way to go but I thought I'd throw it out to any of you to comment. I see the other options as being: HSU HB-1, SVS SBS-01, AV123 X-series or ELT525M Mini Monitor, Aperion Intimus 4B.

I know the only way to really decide is to listen to them all and maybe that is what I'll do, but you guys are an awesome source of info, so I thank you for your opinions in advance!