trust me, if it was totally up to me, i would by another stand or a shelf to put the speaker on. It's my wife that is rejecting the two options. That shelf is only going to be there till I move into my new house. If the VP100 does not work, I will need to return the entire Axiom speaker combo. I have talked to to people at Axiom, and they told me that the VP100 will not sound all that much different.
The seating distance in my new living room is 8-9' from the screen.

NAD T753, m22, vp150 & m2's