man...just three letters... WOW
what a co-incidence!
i've just landed up in Rajkot at this very minute from ahemedabad and tried to catch up with the forum and i caught up your thread.
i was on a 1 day visit of ahemedabd to check out furniture for my flat with my architect/int designer and family. took the opportunity to visit as many hifi audio shops as possible. i had no clue where to look at! i was only aware about the Yamaha AS, Bose, Onkyo and ProFX. Then came know about Loud and Clear, Rhythm Solutions and Vibrations. Visited all of them baring Rhythm Solutions as they were busy at customer site when I was around. The Pavaliion was under re-construction, so no point visiting there (I wanted to check out Elac over there). I loved the approach of all the dealers, and special thanks to Karan of Loud and Clear, Mr Chirag of ProFX, Mr Willis of Yamaha and Mr Vipul of Vibrations.
Where did you source your speakers from? Are there any other dealers than those i've mentioned? i could visit them next time as i still have some time to go before my purchase. and quite frankly, i'm very confused now after listening to towers. i was initially thinking of a 5.1 but with my budget, I might just go for a good pair of towers with a multi channel AVR to build the system step by step as suggested by many of the forum members in diff threads as well as Mr Karan of Loud and Clear.