..but won't have any time to fool around with it until this weekend.

No bass traps in my room or any kind of room treatment whatsoever. My listening room is approx 13 ft wide, 19 feet long, and the ceiling slopes from about 9.5 ft to 8.5 ft, left to right.

I like to listen from 12-15 feet away from the speakers, in the sweet spot, of course.

Yes, the Belles is quite compatible with the M.F, and the M.S.

With regard to cabling...I intend to tweak it, however, I've plugged the XRAY into top of the line Belles AMP, Belles PRE, Reference 3A Episodes, and thousand dollar speaker wires, IC, and power conditioning and the sound still lacked the body/texture I am looking to add. So, once I put the VDAC into play.......