drew88 Welcome, I'm also a former Bose owner, when I had them I thought they were great, and as John pointed out they do a good job of blending unobtrusively into the room and sound pretty good if you haven't listened to anything that would be considered audiophile quality.
Once I got my Axioms it was literally like I was hearing some of my music for the first time. Since then I've virtually re-listened and re-watched all my cd's and movies. Most important was I got the Wow factor after my wife heard them
The 60's should be fine for your room, I'm using 80's and my couch is about 9 feet from my tv also.
