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Sides, but you're probably already sensing a trend...

What's that, John, that all of us are of no help?

Nah, just that after the first few responses PhilipD probably decided to go with sides and stopped looking at the thread

Sounds great guys I will put them in the front as suggested....I knida knew befoer I posted but I still check the thread.

But I thought sides were suggested - not front!

just today, i ordered a pair of QS4's (i should have them next week) for my small basement office secondary HT setup, they will be used as side surrounds!

for my larger main HT room, I use QS8's for side surrounds. In the main Ht room I use Direct Radiating speakers for my 2 surround back channels to round out my 7.1 system!

I'm currently running a 5.1 setup with M60's for the front's with a VP150 for the center. I've also got a pair of QS8's on the sides. I've been thinking of adding a pair of M3 bookshelves to drive my back channels when I step up to 7.1

So my question is how do you like that setup? Do you feel that it really balances it out? Or do you think using QS4's might be a better way to go. Maybe we could start a poll: M3's vs. QS4's for the rear channels?

Well my setup is very much like yours (M60, VP150), but you have more speaker on the sides, 8's vs my 4's. My rears are NHT's from 1990! One inch tweeters and 4.5 mid's have been carrying the load and continue to do so.

The biggest difference occurred when I moved to a 7.1 and put the QS4's into the mix. I lost the directionality to rear sounds and the sound became so much more natural. I'm sure you are already hearing this with your QS8's on the side.

With that in mind, I think it is a no brainer to round out the 7.1 with QS4's. Why add directionality?

M2s would be a better match to your setup than M3s and should work fine if you're a few ft away from them. Personally I would go with the QS.

I vote QS8's for back channels as well. Can't have too much of a good thing!