Recently I swapped out my Polk Monitor 40's that I was using as my surrounds with the PSB floorstanders (Image 7PT's) and now my Polk's are in my secondary system. This is the first time I have ever used these as main speakers, but was always impressed with their performance for surround work. However, they are actually pretty damn good mains too. I was blown away. I had low expectactions of these babies and they proved me wrong in many ways. I think part of the reason is that I bi-amped them through my receiver, which really enabled these speakers to do some incredible bass that I was no expecting at all. They are rear ported speakers and I adjusted them to about 12" away from the rear walls and about 9' away from each other. They are also about 4' from the side walls as well. For $300 these are insane. They obviously are not great at producing the whole spectrum of sound or do alot of the refinement that better speakers like my PSB Platinums can, but they also cost 1/15th the price. For some people the price/performance ratio is not worth it once you get beyond a certain point and I can certainly see why in some cases. For some, it's a difference that is not always worth it and some are not necessarily after the idea of perfect, to them...pretty good will suffice.

I am thinking now in different terms to what my initial goal was several months ago, which was to have a system that was good at both 2-channel and 5.1. I think now I might pursue 2 systems (1 for HT, 1 for music). For this reason I might think about getting the Platinum M2's and instead of using them as surrounds with my T6's I might use them in a secondary system.