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Great feedback everybody. Since I can't rightfully expect everyone to visualize my minute technical adjustments, I've modified the sample picture to show the desk reduction, the speakers being moved closer together (to about 10 feet), the seating area being moved back and the back wall being...

Thanks for the feedback everyone. Let me make sure I've got this straight: If I elect to have a 9 foot desk on my front wall, and assuming I'm sitting 13 feet back from speakers that are 10 feet apart (and about three feet out from the front and side walls), a Bose system will sound better...

Okay, this is good info, thanks. Bear with me but I'm going to ask a couple of blasphemous questions, just for perspective (remember, I'm a newb): 1) If I reduced the desk to 9'4" but otherwise kept it as is, would I get a better sound if I went with another, non-ML, non electrostat type...

Perhaps I should clarify what I'm looking for here, since I'm receiving a lot of negative commentary. Having a desk in the front of the room is non-negotiable, although I can shrink it down from 11'0" (as shown in the picture above) to 9'4" which will leave about 10 feet between the speakers...

VanDaRo... it is very difficult for me to digest advice that says, "do not build that room like you drew it" or, "make it sound good" but provides few suggestions (other than backing the couch up, etc.) on how to make it better. Any suggestions on improving it rather than just canning it? If...

Thanks for those links... I'm feeling much better now. An equilateral triangle or a little bit better I can do. The desk has to stay where it is as the television also functions as a 4th monitor. There is always the chance I will elect to knock down the back wall (which adds another five...

What would be useful is an estimation of the ideal ratio of distance between speakers to distance to seating. Rich, you recommend six to eight feet apart for my seating distance of (average) 11 feet. So perhaps 7:11 is good you say, and my room as designed would be about 12.5:11, or very poor...

Hello All, I'm in the middle of converting a room in my house into a home theater using ML components (Spires, Motif, Fresco i's, Depth i). I just read in the Spire manual that, "your sitting distance should be further than the distance between the speakers themselves" and, "if the distance...

I heard a pair of Spires yesterday in a dealer showroom where I'd previously auditioned Summits, in exactly the same spot. While they were fresh out of the box and not broken in, and I'm no audiophile, it did seem that the sweet spot was wider with the Spires. Will report back more after...

Just got back from my local audio dealership. One downside is only the more expensive preamp has XLR outs. How much of an effect is this on my music?

Hello All, I'm setting up a ML home theater system to be powered by a Sunfire 5400 amp. I'm going Denon for the processing but I'm wondering if I can save myself $4.5K by going with the AVR-4308 receiver vs. the AVP-A1HDCI preamp? Are there serious downsides to this that I don't know about...

Will do Tom...

At the moment I'm leaning more toward the Spires with a Depth i sub for precisely that reason... larger panel, larger sound. My neighbors are gonna love me...

There are a number of ML speakers that now sport the "i" suffix. Whassup wit that?!

Thanks again for all the sage advice everybody. If anyone is curious, I'm planning on going with a Sunfire TGA-5400 amp (five 400W channels) to drive everything. Anyone think this is overkill with the speaker config I'm looking at? There is a 5200 after all... Cheers

Thanks Burke. At the moment I'm leaning toward Spires, Motif, Depth, Frescos. I'd go with the Stage for center except it really is much too big (physically) for my space. I'd go with the Descent for a sub, but I've only got a 16x13 room and there's a neighbor on the other side of the front...

Are the Summits and the Vantages the same generation? I had thought the Vantages were newer. How about the Spires? Those are pretty new.

I really appreciate the advice I'm getting so far, but I'd like to constrain the answers to my original question: Which would sound better- going with Vantages and a Depth i, or (the old discontinued) Summits without a sub...? I understand that in a audiophile world, I should just audition both...

I am more concerned with quality than price, so are you saying that... 1) Vantage + Descent i would be best? 2) Summits alone would be second best? 3) Vantage + Depth i would be last?

Hello All, This is my first post here. I am putting a home theater config together in my new house and listened to my first pair of ML's (and first time ESL's) last month and fell in love. Now I just have to figure what to get... My room is 16' wide by 13' deep. The 60" plasma is smack dab...