Hi Mike,
I am agreed with Potatohead on the M22's and VP150. However you obviously have to work within your budget and physical constraints.
The normal configuration would be left and right front speakers only and optionally a center channel. Without the center channel there would only be the left and right fronts which would create the phantom center effect. By turning off the center channel in your AVR the signals that would have been routed to the center speaker are instead mixed into the front left and right channels - creating the 'phantom' center channel.
The speakers connect to your AVR with standard speaker cable. It's up to you if you want to use banana plugs or some other connectors. You can always use bare speaker wire into the binding posts with no connectors.
Hope that helps.
