I just got the same setup last week and you are going to love them. I haven't even calibrated my speakers and they sound great. I just ordered that Avia DVD and I am going to get a SPL meter this weekend to make them sound even better. On my old system I never used to listen to CD's...just TV and movies but now it is like listing to my CD's for the first time. I spent all day Sun. and Mon. just playing music.

About the speaker wire I got the 14g form Home Depot and it worked just fine. I was going to go 12g but like Ray3 said it just wasn't that flexible.

Congrats on the new speakers.