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I currently have fronts and center now, I do not have money to get sub and surrounds same time, which would you get first? Which would you rather live without for time being? Look at sig for my system specs.

My vote goes to the sub.

Is this for music listening or home theater?

Eric, if your mains were bookshelves I might lean toward a sub first, but your M60s have pretty good bass on their own(although a sub such as the EP500 would be significantly better). That being the case, I'd suggest going with the QS surrounds, which could play the discrete surround material in 5.1 source material and just as importantly, use DPLII or the other surround processing modes in your 1068 to expand 2-channel sources. Using them to extract the surround ambience naturally confined(in varying degrees)in the front channels and steering it to the surrounds where it belongs is a significant step toward a little more realistic reproduction.

Looking at his equipment list and taking into account he was asking about surrounds I assume it is for H/T. Either way music or H/T I think a sub is the way to go.

Well, mostly for home theater. I just did not know which one was more important than the other? So its either missing gun shots going over my head vs feeling explosions during a movie.

Tough one, but why sacrifice? I am a bass nut so I bought a sub, and used an old set of 6x9's I had lying around for surrounds. Kept me quite happy until I was able to afford the QS8's. (About 2 years - Some surround was better than no surround)

Get the q's. If nothing else they look cool.
Seriously, the q's are everything they're said to be.

My vote is also for the surrounds, the big booms are fun but Imo they don't have as much impact as hearing rain falling around you or any effects coming from different areas of the room.