Linda and I do lots of entertaining in our home, and inevitably the guys who visit want to hear the big Selah XT-8 line arrays driven by Krell amplification, and are blown away by the sound. When they ask how much a sytem like mine costs, instead of telling them the actual price, I tell them it cost a lot, but I have a system upstair that cost less than $500, and both they and their wife will like it. Then I bring them upsairs, put on a CD I know their wife will like, and sit her (not him) in the sweet spot to listen.

I'm convinced the answer is to get a correctly-set-up $500 system into their home, and after they have listened to their favorite music on it while drinking a glass of good merlot they will be back for more and better. The upstairs system includes the Parts Express BR1's, a mass market DVD player, and a $100 Best Buy Insignia stereo receiver. I've even built some low tech high mass stands for the BR1's. They're cinderblocks from Home Depot. The speaker cables are Blue Jeans bulk $0.68/ft Belden. Every non-audiophile I sit in the sweet spot to hear this system is amazed, and several have bought the BR1's and the mass market electronics I recommend.