Hey, no worries about "non audiophile antics" -- I have mine on stacks of reams of paper (3 per side). Brings the tweeters up to ear level, and only the slightest of toe-in is what I find to be the perfect balance (aimed about 6 feet behind my head). But that leads to a question -- only after I do that do mine breach the top of my monitor -- how do you have your monitor and keyboard set up? For ergonomic reasons, you should have the monitor at a height so that when you look straight ahead, you're looking at the top half of the screen, left of center. I have a special drawer/platform thingy for my keyboard so that my elbows are slightly above the plane of the keyboard, so that my fingers only drop down a little bit.
Or do you slouch really badly?
The result is that there is no desk for the bass to bounce off of. There's also ports in the back -- you could fashion some foam bungs to plug into the ports (thrice -- no "where are we going with this thread" jokes).
Oh, and I completely agree with the midrange. It's competitive with my old Spendor S3/5's that I used to have. Before I got these, I missed those; after I got these, I didn't miss 'em no mo'.