Hello!

I don't pretend to be a speaker expert by any means, but I do love music. I spent hours out in the cold boxing day morning here in Canada to get the Bose 701s series 2 speakers on sale for $699 (Canadian dollars) and a 5.1 sony 100w/channel receiver for $200 CDN. Now, I hooked them up and Im still debating how I feel about the sound. What I really want to know is can I add 2 back speakers without Bose's reflecting thing they specialize in (I was thinking maybe a couple of Polk or Infinity bookshelves) and still have the whole system sound good for music? I do want to use them for movies too, but havent hooked them up to a dvd player yet, so if you have tried that I would also appreciate hearing how your results were. I have a feeling that these speakers would really benefit from 2 rear speakers for music, and I think the Bose speakers are the best deal I can get here for the price I paid (let me know if Im wrong). I know I can get a good 5 speaker system (I was looking at the Athena Point 5 MK2 speakers on sale for $499 CDN at futureshop) for the price I paid for the Boses... but I think the 701s do a better job than 4 bookshelves would. Really curious to hear opinions.

Just FYI, Im mostly into rock type music (pink floyd, tool, nirvana, etc).

Thank you very much
Steve