It won't be + $1,500. when all is said done, everybody thinks it is always about the money, it is not. You want to know a funny thing, one guy here on AC wouldn't buy them unless I sold them for what I paid for them, people are funny. The short answer is I love the bass from my BIG Klipsch bass bins, nothing sounds like that. Their 3db down point is about 38hz but it sounds so good you would think they played down to 20hz. And they are in the corners not in the middle of the room and they are 104 db eff. I knew all of this before buying the V's but have wanted to hear them in my room for awhile now.