My experiences so far:
I am tired of seeing the demos in the showrooms with movie sequences with fights in closed rooms and no real good audio demos inspite of telling them i want a setup more for audio in a open room. Only in reliance dizital i got to hear some music demo, heard yamaha, denon, onkyo 307- others i dont remember the models but all are 5.1 channel compact speaker systems with avrs. onkyo sounded good even when the demo room is open (i looking at a open setup) when compared to others which sounded good only with a total closed room.
But when i went to Onkyo showroom to check the 508 and tried 307 once again strangely its didnt sound the same, it wasnt at all good. came back thinking the demo room is not acoustic enough or they had bad quality audio CD
I have been Bose demo of aquostic mass and 50-60k range models sometime back, they sounded great with their demo cd of video and audio, but trust me take your own ipod or cd and play your music, they sound like any other ordinary systems.
Went to Yamaha direct dealer to check their sound bars which have awesome reviews every where but this was my worst demo experience, the dealer had a very bad setup and they were made to sound like crap...
Any body from the forum residing in Hyderabad and have a stereo system / audio oriented setup?? I would like to come over and hear!!