Now, if they could only get knowledgable sales persons...Thats what you get when they pay there people $7-$8 an hour instead of commission. When I worked retail Commission sales I knew I had to know my stuff to get a paycheck. Some 17 year old kid at Best Buy is typically gonna know what he read off the info card in front of the product.
Now on to Athena...if memory serves me correct Athena is a subdivision of Energy speakers a lower grade devision so to speak (not that energy could make anything bad) but none the less a devision for certain retailers to carry. Where I live in Washington theres only 1 store that carrys them currently, and everyone else is like who?? I liked the Sound of the athenas but at the same time they to me did not sound nearly as good as the Energy's maybe its just in my head though.