I remember back in 1994, I got a $400 Aiwa shelf system and my roommate was playing around with it, cycling thru all the preset EQ's, Surround settings, X-Bass, BBE (Aiwa's treble enhancement), and he spent like 10 minutes all frustrated because he couldn't find anything he really liked lol. The look on his face was very unimpressed. The rear surround speakers were a joke, because this was before true 5-channel surround was available, so they just bleeded off a couple watts worth of standard 2-channel sound to those dinky little rear speakers lol, it was pathetic.