Speaker Noob Question

Hello All,

I have an Energy Take Classic Set paired with an Onkyo TX SR-705 and a PS3 as my blu-ray player. The sound is pretty good. I have all the crossovers setup correctly and it sounds good, but I have this question:

Is it better to use these speakers with the optical toslink cable or should I keep using them with high res HDMI sound for blu-ray?

This set is a good set for a small room, but I think that even for a small room they don't have what's necessary to properly reproduce high-res sound and actually, that it would be putting too much stress on them.

Am I right on this or am I missing something?

Thanks for the quick reply.

My room size is 9.5' by 11'. Its as small as it gets for a dedicated room.

I guess my complaint is that I don't hear a good separation from the speakers. I'm used to my older HT (which now I regret leaving it with my parents when I got married) that has full size fronts and rears. The sound was fuller, and u could tell where the sound was coming from!!

I was thinking it was either the speakers or their placement. I used the audessy sound setup from the receiver, so I just set the speakers wherever I thought they could go and then ran the auto-setup. But I'm not completely convinced.

My subwoofer is the standard that comes with the Classics. I know they later started selling just the sats and people paired them with a bigger sub, but for that small room size, the 8" sub is sufficient. Really! Its just sat separation that's not convincing enough.

Maybe i should include a picture of my setup so to give u a better idea.

OH, and I have the PS3 Fat 80GB. Right now its outputting multichannel PCM through HDMI to my receiver.

Thanks

OK,

Here are some pictures of my setup... I'm in the middle of a summer clean, so please don't mind the mess!

These were taken with my Blackberry camera. (3.2mp)

What do u guys think of it? See something wrong with speaker placement?

Just bumping it up

Can someone take a look and please comment?

Thanks in advance