I surround systems for 20 years and can therefore provide an objective judgment to do so. The skin reason for acquiring this system 2 1/2 years ago was the compact size of the surround speakers and the unobtrusive color. The previously built system with subwoofer and Jamo Magnat satellites had mostly soft because of the size and black color of Jamo speakers. A new subwoofer, I did not particularly want, but the JBL system was generally cheaper than the purchase of individual satellite speakers and thus I have everything replaced (except the center speaker). Powered speaker system from an Onkyo 7.1 amplifier with 7x180W RMS power. The 4 small speakers are used exclusively as a surround speaker. As main speakers I use 2 large floor-standing speakers from JBL. The sound is very good. The subwoofer is even a bit better than that of magnate. The satellites sound about as good as the predecessor of Jamo but have only half the size. I can say nothing about the center speaker, because I do not insets him (but I do not think he can keep up with my previous Cernterspeaker because in this important speaker does matter on the size). The workmanship is top quality and overall you do with this system, or one of his successors certainly nothing wrong.