Placement is very important. As Dean mentioned, it is important for newbies to experiment, experiment, experiment. To often people think they need to upgrade after a few days or weeks because they are not hearing what they expected.
That's exactly what happened to me. But my problem was with my receiver setting even though I haven't tried many different speakers placements so far. Listening to music on pure direct or stereo mode is not as good as Dolby Prologic too, and that was just the thing I was missing on my music.
