rtsy... thanks for the comments 
I'll try hard to keep the patience thing going, but it is kinda tough.
We'll all pray for you.
9 years is pretty good. That means that you chose well then cuz you were satisfied with your setup that long. Hopefully I'll be that satisfied too.
Either I chose well or I save up too slow.
Seriously, another money saving technique I learned is you should (1) buy the best you can hear and afford today then (2) make quantum leap upgrades instead of incremental ones thereafter.
If you buy good stuff, it's gonna last a while and it'll stand several improvements on incrementally updated products from competition in the same price range. One thing I do is after I've zeroed in on a product I like, I auditon products above its price range/quality just to see whether I find that improvement worth it. If yes, I wait some more and save up. If no, then you merely solidify your purchase decision.
When I bought my Dynaudio Audience 40, I auditioned also thrice the price stuff from Dunlavy, Revel, B&W Nautilus, etc. The exercise proved what bang for buck my chosen stuff was.
By quantum leap upgrades, I mean upgrades that within the first 15 to 20 seconds of a track, you immediately detect that the new thingy is a great improvement on your system. This will keep you put of the merry go round of upgrades for a while.
By incremental upgrades I mean stuff like moving from 5.1 to 6.1 or even 7.1 w/c IMHO really helps in really large rooms but not so much w/ normal-sized rooms. Or moving from a 60wpc HT receiver to 80wpc. For the money you'd spend doing this, you're probably better off just doing some tweaks and positioning changes.
Just so you guys know, my reciever is a NAD. So, from your comments about the audience/NAD combo, I should be pretty satisfied. I do hope so. My room... its about 4mx6m with a pretty high ceiling, so I think it'll work well with the 42s. Just wondering if I can get anything a little better cuz I'm planning to invest on a good dedicated amp to drive them. Got to know all my options. Hehe
You're room is actually slghtly bigger than average rooms. If you'll go for Dynaudio, try to see if you can ask Listening if:
1--you can pay for a 52
2--they can deliver both a 42 and 52 to try in your room
3--if you buy a 52, then no problem. if you buy a 42, then they refund.
I think this proposal is reasonable enough.
Dyns need lots of breathing room. No less than 1m from any wall, and not the same distance from the rear as side walls. Don't even think about using the foam bungs to plug the ports as it significantly reduces the Dyn's abilities.
Also if you go Dyns, ask Listening about OCOS cables. I haven't heard them but I've read good things about them w/ Dyn speakers.
Dyns don't like too much toe-in. I think they've designed their drivers to disperse sound not straight out but to the sides a bit.
NAD, Rotel, Marantz, and Onkyo put very musical amplifiers in their HT receivers. If you are considering using your HT receiver as a pre-amp outputting to a tubed poewr amp, also consider CD players w/ tubes in the output stages (nOrh CD1/QDS15, Ah! Njoe Tjoeb, Heart, Opera, or even tube output DACs like Scott Nixon). I have a hunch they'd mate well w/ your NAD.
