I bought a pair of Paradigm Studio 100s a year or so ago with the intent of using them as the fronts for my HT room which I'm in the process of building right now. I want to use them for stereo playback as well as for the various configurations in my 7.1 setup. However, I'm wondering if I should omit my Paradigm sub-woofer and set the 100s to 'large' and allow them to handle the bass management. They're certainly capable and another friend has done the same in his 5 channel setup, and I think his setup sounds just fine without a sub.

Any thoughts on this?