AMie thanks for uncensoring your post! I appreciate your honesty and your candor, and I will use your methods as well as Marc's methods to optimize my placement of the M22's. As for speaker cable- maybe you are on to something. Here is an experiment- go to Radio SHack and buy 1 or 2 spools of 18 guage solid core hook up wire. Twist 2 pairs of the cable toghether (mark your + and -, and twist the pairs together to form one neg, one pos per cable !!!), terminate them, and give it a listen. This cable is acutally a Stereophile recommended component!? and is DIRT Cheap. Try it vs.Monster cable. Hey it's only $3.99 a spool, so What have you got to lose! Again, thanks for your useful and frank advice- it is much appreciated.

BTW- if Marc in Ottawa is the Marc I think he is, many happy bag limits to you, sir :)