Well I was not about to run out and buy Swan stuff in the first place. But your statment about them being made in China, dose NOT float my boat at all. The reason my old Polks no longer work is because Polk sent me not 1 but 3 drivers..all made in China..they all do the same thing, POP when to put too much power to them. I can't get the original driver fixed. The China made stuff is JUNK..period. OK with that off my chest...back to the M80's. The position of the speaker 2.5 feet off the back wall seems to much. Probably NOT were i would put it. It would stick too far out in the room. My old Polks sit about 1 foot off the wall. WHAT is the recomended space off the wall for the M80's?????