Hi All,


Thank you for the replies and great advice.


Here is what I have decided to do for now:


1. Take and set-up the Carver 7 matching speakers for now and use my Yamaha subwoofer. I'll pick them up in about a week.

2. Go ahead and take the JBL's from my father-in-law (I may trade him for my Bose system since he wants something smaller and is just playing music).


I'll see how the Carver's sound first since they are smaller and can mount on the walls (I won't mount the front's right away. I have some speaker stands that are close the the correct height to get an idea how the system sounds.

I'll then hook up the JBL speakers and see how they sound, play around with the receiver settings as suggested and see if they overpower the HT speakers or not. They are really big which may or may not be to my taste. I almost need to just set them up and see. My media room is not huge. 13 feet wide by 18 feet long. I'll be sitting approx 16 feet away from the plasma TV and front speakers. The depth of the JBL speaker is 18.94 inches. The depth of my TV stand is 17 inches. It's close. I plan on either upgrading to a different TV stand or mounting the TV on the wall and routing everything to a rack inside a drywall box the contractor had to build for some piping. I'm not sure. If i mount to the wall, then the JBLs will look waaaay too big. If I stick with a TV stand/rack for the audio equipment, then they may be look alright.


The final issue with the JBL's is that they are only 35 inches high. My wire jackplate is 43 inches high at the mid-way point of the jack plate where I currently have the Bose speakers mounted. The wires will be exposed and have to connect down. I suppose I can place each speaker on a floor stand? Any recommendations on where I can find something like that?


Does this seem like a reasonable plan?