Well, I guess I officially have the bug (and a budget). I'm obsessed like I was with my highschool girlfriend..
I have $400 to spend on floor standing speakers. Before about 40 hours of reading posts I really didn't realize the planning needed when building a HT setup. I figured any good set of frot loudspeakers would work with a future HT setup... wrong. I learned about something called timber matching.
So, here's what I'm looking for:
1. Floor standing front speakers - 50% music (rock), 50% movies
2. Will work well with a future "timber matched" center
3. The smallest center speaker as possible. My 42" plasma is on a plasma console, not on the wall and the center would likely be in front of the plasma so it cant be too high where it is in front of the screen.
4. ~$400
I was very intersted in the BIC's but the center is the same size as the L/R and would be too big. If a low profile center does not exist that will not give me a good sound stage then I'll have to raise my plasma, which I don't want to do (unless I absolutely have to).
Receiver will be either an AVR-235 or Panny XR55 - probably the 235 for the sync delay feature.
Thanks for your advise.