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| | Home Theater: Athena Micra 6 Speaker System |
 | | With the Micra system, Athena has entered an area virtually ignored during the stunning wave of HTIB successserious, affordable, and small home theater speaker systems that sell for about $500. |
 | | The satellites' contemporary silver cabinets, made of injected-molded resin, are impregnated with a 3.5-inch, polypropylene cone driver (yes, the cabinets bloat at the midsection) that uses a 9-ounce magnet, a substantial endowment for a driver of this size. |
 | | I matched the Micra 6 system with other exemplary budget components: Pioneer's $249 DV-563A universal player (this progressive-scan DVD player also accepts DVD-Audio and SACD discs) and the 30-inch Samsung HD monitor, which has an MSRP of $1,099. |
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