Sweet Spot for Triangle Speakers

First, if your Zerius are anything like the Celius, then you will need to play em in for about 200 hours. NO JOKE! There are physical reasons for this, not some brain adjustment course as is sometimes the case.

You WILL need to be in the sweet spot to gain the best imaging and soundstaging from these, and most, speakers.

These are compared to electrostatics more for their speed, dynamcis and how they deal with transients, not so much how they image (which they do rather well).

Be sure to set them up properly, and if you do not know how room nodes affect the sound, then by all means educate yourself on this most important component (the room itself).

Some will argue that it is best to listen with you head as close to the rear wall as possible (no more than a foot or two); this way your brain will ignore the reflections as they are too close to the main sound wave.

Others prefer a Live-End Dead-End configuration, but that requires very deliberate set-up and usually involves numerous tools such as echo busters for absorption.

Make sure that you diffract the primary reflections (straight line between the angle from the tweeter to the side wall to you). This is very critical.

What is the size and shape of your room, and what were the speakers in the old system?

Finally, I have not heard of the Outlaw Receiver? Is this a low-power tube unit or SS? Link?

Patriot, your room dimension is a nightmare - a perfect square is the LAST thing one wants to deal with in setting up speakers. DO check out the Cardas website, and also search the Stereophile site for the Room Tunes articles from a few years ago - I forget who wrote them, but they are there and very good. You more than likely have standing waves all over the place, reinforcing a host of lower pitches, so I would imagine that you will need as another poster pointed out some DIY absorbtion devices. These will be the most imp upgrade you can make barring none, esp given the dimensions of your room.