I am looking to pick up my first set of quality speakers and am leaning really heavily towards the Ascends after hearing one of my buddy's setups. I am planning on starting with a 3.0 setup as I am in quite a small apartment and don't want to piss off the neighbors lol.

Originally I was looking at the CBM-170 (L/R) + CTM-340 (C) combo, but after some looking and measuring, there is just no good place for me to put the 340. It would have to awkwardly mounted or muffled in a cabinet. The HTM-200 seems like it would fit much better just from a size POV.

The only thing is that I haven't really been able to find many people talk about running CBM-170 (L/R) with a HTM-200 center. Is this because they aren't a great combo? Or would I be fine running them together up front? Thank you!

(For reference, I sit around 7-8 ft away from my TV in my small living room. I mainly watch TV and movies and don't need ear-piercing levels of volume. Going to run everything through a Denon X1400h)