Thanks for the reply guys. I looked through the audition list, and it looks like oldskoolboarder is closest to me (I live in the south bay area near San Francisco.) Coincidentally, he has exactly the same speaker setup I'm looking to get. I'll send him a message to see if he'll let me do a little audition, thanks!

As for the room type -- it's basically a carpeted bedroom (18x12x10) with fairly high ceilings (10'), with your typical american wall construction, i.e. dry wall. Nothing fancy really, although I do think there is a concrete slab beneath me.

I had some klipsch promedia 5.1 ultra computer speakers before, which had two side firing 8.5" subs. It was ok, but I'm hoping these axiom's with a Denon 3808 would be nice step up?