Someone from the west coast used 3 horizontal VP150s as fronts in an HT setup with success, a number of years ago. Personally I'd go with a couple of bookshelf speakers in your case if you're just going two channel, ie music only. I'd have a look at a couple of M3's...relatively small and unobtrusive, but very rich sound with a slight emphasis in the bass.

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