Get one if you want a better sound. Due to my kitchen being, er what should I say, just bricks and roof timbers at the moment due to building work, we have moved all the contents of the cupboards into the living room. The missus and baby have moved to her mum's for a couple of weeks too. Consequently as well as being full of wine glasses and pots and pans, my living room has also had the rug rolled up. The sound of my system is nowhere near as nice as normal with all these hard objects and lack of soft furnishings in here. So my advice would be, get a rug and don't put 36 various wine glasses and cast iron casserole dishes in front of your speakers. Or it could be the fact that I couldn't sleep last night as I was too excited about the thought of getting my ProAcs up and running in the new kitchen in a couple of weeks. Finally! Anyway, the missus being away, if any pretty young ladies fancy coming round to ahem listen to a few tunes then come on, I live close to the Red Lion in London. One requirement is you must have an affinity for dust and red wine, and not be too worried about having a microwave just under the plasma