Agreed. If I were to do a clean, professional job with mods then that would not be out of the question. It all depends on the final product you want. Best Buy install? Too much. Real install? Good deal.
Bob, As I would agree in the last paragraph detailing what my personal choice would be. My Klipsch setup is not the very top of the line, but I spent a good deal on my PB12+2. I personally don't like the surrounds crowding my theater so I went for the architectural in-ceiling Klipsch...
For $3000 you can make those Bose or HTIB's sound like piles of junk (literally...I'm not kidding). In any case I would never recommend the Bose. For what little and insufficient you get, you pay outrageous markups for marketing programs and scams. But in the meantime, I would recommend you...