Tom, yes Boomer is a very spoiled Weimaraner who we acquired from the humane society just over eight years ago ... he's certainly priority number one on the health and welfare list in our family.
Chris I thought the Cardas placement had the 60s a little too close to the listening position, almost seemed a little too much sonically in my face but the narrow width between the speakers (5'6") did provide nice imaging so I ended up moving the 80's a little closer to each other (from 10' to 8' apart) but kept the 5' distance from the back wall. I didn't did get a chance to listen to any music after I moved them last evening but will listen to some 2 ch music today and see how that works out. I think speaker placement is an under rated part of fine tuning the system and that is the one area where I really like to experiment with.