Hey George,
I find Axis works but its subtle. I am using the +3 for the center and +2 for the mains.

I don't find the 8000s for the mains and rears as overkill as I have no subs in the room. The room is actually a trapazoid shape- the front is like 17.5' wide and the rear is like 19' wide. The length is something like 29'. And the height at the top of the platform is like 7.5' and at the bottom is like 9' - so if you do the math its like 4400 cubic feet- its a good amount of air to move. The sides and centers are 7000 and they are all set to large. The 7000s actually move a good amount of air too. They are absolutely overkill for the sides- but at the time I didn't want to do the 33s and I didnt like the idea of doing a wall mounted 5000 series speaker. If I were doing it over today, Id have made the room taller, gone with an 8000 for the center, and done some kind of Meridian in wall speaker (DSP420?) for the sides and 8000s for the rears.

I dont have the multichannel input card so I run HDDVD over compressed SPDIF. The toshiba XA1 will up/down sample things to 1.5mbs DTS and the result is quite a bit of an improvement over the standard DVD soundtracks- so while its not quite the ultimate these new formats can do, its a nice improvement.

best regards,
Jerry

Best regards,
Jerry
Main System: 861v6, DSP8000s in corners, DSP7000s Center and Sides, 1-9 humans.