Indeed its only as good as the source , but who said that a dennon amp with warfedale speakers were second rate

i don't care how expensive or large the speakers are

there are many speakers available that are considerably less money for only a slight amount of audio range which 95% people cannot detect

i happen to have strange hearing by which meaning i can hear frequencies at 10 hz with my ears (atomically perfect eardrums as certified by a doctor) she was so impresses she spent 5 minutes just looking at them even tho there was nothing wrong.

good sound does not equate to big cones with so much base that you set of the USGS sensors

my question is

how does good quality surround compete to good stereo

if second rate surround is poor that good surround must easily be better

never assume someone else's setup is inferior just because they didn't spend al ot on setting it up