Thanks for all of the responses. I have already played around with speaker placement, toe in, and the distance of my position to the speakers. I haven’t tried hanging any rugs yet, but I agree that this could help a lot (especially with imaging). I’m going to mess around with these things some more, but as I do, does anyone have any suggestions as to what would be some good receivers to look into getting. I would like the most bang for the buck. I would like something that is at least 5.1 DTS compatible. I also what it to do an exceptional job on listening to music. I use my system about 70+% music and 30-% movies. My budget is around $500 or less (less would be good, but if I HAVE to go over this to get what I want, I guess I have to). In reading the other posts I would like something that can “up-sample all video inputs to component video and output through one component monitor cable to the TV”. I didn’t realize that some amps could do this, but this would be very desirable.