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Hmm, thanks for all the advice.

As for the initial response by Trevor. Yes I did buy it without
auditioning in my room.

I live in Madrid and you be very suprised how bad the general quality
of HIFI is in Spain. I had to import the speaker and the amplifier as
the only thing I could actually buy from Madrid was the Arcam CD player
(I even had to order the speaker stands direct !). As you csan
understand, I cannot exactly go to the UK just to audition the
components so brought the "system" based on a what hifi review of "all"
the components tested together in one go.

So not ideal certainly but better than buying a system made by pioneer
which is about all the is availbe from the Madrid "HI-FI" shops.

Don't underestimate Pioneer, I have a friend who owns one of their receivers
for HT and it is excellent. Take a look
http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pn...etailComponent

And
"recommended" as a whole by what-hifi, for what thats worth.

It's worth whatever you think it is, so long as they don;t recomend junk,
which is increasingly hard to find, given that for solid state equipment,
it's pretty tough to make crap.

The speakers are definately wired up right as this is something i have
checked out many times.

The room is certainly not ideal as it is effectivly a living
room/american kitchen which is not square to start with, not good.

Not always bad, after all how many venues for live music are square?

In terms of siting the speakers I would say that again its less that
ideal. I always read that they should be away from corners, well one is
in a corner and the other not. Again difficult to resolve considering
the room and conditions. I'm moving house soon so perhaps this will be
resolved though. I was looking for some inspiration hopefully from hifi
enthusiasts and I have recieved many replies, thanks.

If theres anyone out there with this setup, who is happy, please let me
know how its set up.

Without proper speaker setup it's pretty hard to get anything like inspiring
sound from an audio system. Hang in there until you move and I'm sure you
will find that what you have is a lot better than it seems at present.