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So my wife got me a pair of High Gloss Cherry QS8s for christmas. I hooked them up a few days ago. At first I thought they were a bit quiet. They seemed to only play ambient noises. I wondered why I needed such a large speaker with 2 tweeters and 2 woofers just for ambient noises. I really noticed them working though when playing metal gear solid on the ps3. They really helped me spot the enemies since i could hear exactly where they were. Some other movies such as 300 in the scene where there are 1000s of arrows flying at the soldiers you could hear them landing all around you. That was pretty cool.

When playing metal gear solid i tried using the "Video Game" mode on my Denon 2809ci. It appeared to add echo to everything, but did not acurately reflect the position on the sounds basically it just used all speakers to produce the sound. When i switched to regular 5 channels that was when i could hear if there was someone sneaking up behind me. Anyways I think i have to spend some time tweeking the system, but so far I'm pretty happy with the speakers.