I wrote a review of the Exodus 61 Bookshelf speakers some time back. I was so impressed, I built the large Exodus 2641 towers for my 2-channel listening.
Link to the Exodus kit here:
http://www.diycable.com/main/product_info.php?cPath=24_92&products_id=539Until recently, I had never listened to the Exodus 61s with movies.
The Exodus 61s sat in my basement for the longest time after I built the 2641 towers. However, we recently moved to a new home, and they've been moved to family room HT duty. In the past I've always used full surround sound solutions for HT. I ran into a couple problems when thinking about this new family room HT. First, my wife wanted the TV in the corner. Second, the home is very old; fishing new wire lengths through the walls is not something I wanted to try. Third, my old surround speakers went with the buyers of our previous home.
Anyway. I set up the Exodus 61 bookselves in the family "ht" room. I turned off the subwoofer out, set the fronts to "large," routed the LFE to the fronts, and turned off the center and surround channels. Everything is being routed through the Exodus 61s. We watched
Sahara last night --- I was very impressed with the capabilities of the Exodus 61 bookshelves:
They imaged like a center channel was in the room. They handled the bass duties as well as many <$500 subwoofers. They didn't back off big dynamic special effects for a second. They remained musical when the soundtrack kicked in. In other words, I was very impressed. I simply don't know of any other bookshelf speaker on the market that I could confidently set to "LARGE" -and- route all LFE to for HT duties. My wife, who generally ignores most of this stuff, said, "I thought you weren't going to install the subwoofer."
(I should note that our room is only ~14x18, larger rooms would likely begin to push excursion limits during low bass sequences.)
