WHY DO PEOPLE FEEL THE NEED TO COMMENT ON CABLES AND EQUIPMENT THEY HAVE NEVER HEARD?

He might want to check out Steve Gutenberg's 'Viewer System of the Day' vids on YouTube to see other people's setups.... 

@calvinj

Re: your vaulted ceilings, you might find an "acoustic cloud" solution. You can get one from Auralex that is an absorber (best used in front of the MLP:

and the pic you see in my virtual system is a cloud made from Acoustic Lens diffusors (best hung behind the MLP), I took 4 of them, connected them together in a row, then hung them from the ceiling with a kit:

@calvinj

I hung the cloud below my PJ, this is a shot looking up through them from below, you can see my VOG speakers on the ceiling, the Auralex Geofusors above the MLP (backfilled with polyfill so the double as bass traps) and then some absorptive panels in front of them:

Windows are a chronic problem in rooms, I didn’t want absorptive blackout curtains so I took the acoustic lens, hooked two together, and hung it like a picture. Works great but not very pretty. The sacrifices we make for SQ:

Wife not allowing that in the condo. Lol.