yesterday i finished putting together my (new to me) 5.1 HT rig, the centerpiece of which is the AR MGC-1 speaker. as you can see, the speakers are actually comprised of 2 speakers systems per cabinet, with a front and side firing arrays. these were designed by Ken Kantor when he was head of R&D at AR in the mid '80's. in fact, he was the previous owner of this pair... he even signed the back label for me.

technically the system is 4.0 as the fronts also handle the center and sub signals. the receiver is a Pioneer VSX 47TX (130x7), an Oppo BDP-83 supplies video and multi-channel playback, and a Squeezebox v.3 connected to a Vortexbox music server handles the 2-channel stereo duties.

the sound from this system is nothing short of spectacular. so much so that it has displaced my dedicated stereo rig as my primary listening system.