Thanks everyone. I didn't have quite the long journey that others had to pick out speakers, but it still felt like a long time, been some months now deciding what to get. No, the HT3's will be there in a week or so, but I won't be home until Sept 13th, so my wife will have to keep them company until then.
The ST setup will all be in my rec room downstairs, I got the idea for an all ST 5.1 setup from zybar, who made a pretty convincing argument about identical full range channels in the era of lossless audio and multichannel music. My particular setup won't allow a ST for a center like his does, but the songcenter will do just fine. I don't really have that big a room, I kinda bought in the hopes of future proofing for when I have a bigger place. The basement is defintely bachelor pad, with all kinds of junk just stuffed where it will fit. The HT3's are going upstairs in my living room, my main floor is open and it will provide the ambiance music.
The HT3's are waterfall bubinga with solid bubinga plinths and trim. Months ago I sent Jim some gorgeous waterfall bubinga for the ST setup, way back when it was supposed to be a pair of ST and a pair of HT2-TL's. So there will be a small bubinga forest in my house. Until I found the used HT3's (which obviously I have no choice of veneer), i was going with claro walnut/macassar ebony HT2-TL's for a change of look. In any case, I like bubinga, even if I ended up with more of it than planned.
