I am currently in the Navy and purchased all of my Klipsch speakers from AAFES.com back when they carried the synergy line of speakers (which was up until 2002). You didn't have to be deployed or overseas in order to order the speakers, they carried them in AAFES exchanges state side and also on AFFES.com. Because they carried Klipsch, I was able to special order the reference line. Believe me after the exchange added their markup it wasn't a huge savings but it was nice to be able to order from a trusted source. The exchange submitted a purchase order to Klipsch (for special orders) and Klipsch shipped the speaker direct to the customer. If you look at AAFES.com today you will see alot of lower end speakers or the high dollar Bose stuff. I don't know if Klipsch couldn't compete on price with the low end stuff that the exchange was selling or if they just weren't moving enought product. I would like to know who ended the relationship Klipsch or AAFES? If it was AAFES, we could all ask AAFES to put Klipsch back on the special order list.