So I recieved my Alesis RA-150 amp Monday evening. It turned out to be pretty big compared to what it looks like in all the pictures online. I got some Monster Quicklock Banana Connectors from Radioshack with some 14 gauge speaker cable. My wires came out to be 5 feet each.

I plugged in the speakers, turned the amp on and played Angel by Massive Attack.

The sound quality is absolute pristine. All the things that people talk about making room in your mix and using volume and panorama to place the instruments around makes much more sense. You can actually see where the sounds are coming from :).

I have the picture of present configuration of my studio to the right. As you can see I badly need monitor stands. The thing with the blue light towards the bottom right is the amp. I am running Logic Pro in case you’re curious.