The Accends are very good speakers, I picked the 340s for my sisters theater system. Do they best my Axioms? No, no they don't but then again I have M80s.
Her center can't touch the VP160, that for sure. And the surrounds aren't even close to being as good as the QS series.
But they are a good speaker for the money, there's no arguing that.
Rick
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