gibbsy
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I've never had the comfort of room to place towers as surrounds, British homes tend to be a lot smaller than that found on the other side of the pond. If you have that luxury then certainly put the better speakers in the surround position. Even for film they will still carry a lot more information than rear surrounds.So if you had to choose which speakers to put the higher quality speakers would you choose side surround or rear surrounds? The 8040 towers have 8 inch powered subs, my 8040 surround bookshelves are damn nice speakers but no where near the quality of the towers.
If placed perfectly no speaker should really draw attention to itself unless there is a particular bit of audio information passed intentionally to that speaker. Everything should flow and surround you. SACD is somewhat different but even then most of the information is still delivered by the front speakers for vocals with the surrounds giving instrumentation or reverb.