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My wife and I are moving to a new home that features a 23x17 bonus room. The window, door & deck openings are such that the home entertainment center will be against a long wall. Here is my proposed set-up, a mixture of new and old equipment (some of which will be replaced piece-by-piece as I am able to sneak it past her).A/V RECEIVER
Yamaha HTR-5150, DD and DTS capable, a solid 70 wpc (old)SOURCES
DVD: Panasonic RP-91 (new, based on research showing lack of chroma bug, excellent progressive scan picture)
Digital cable, both input direct to monitor via component video inputsMONITOR
Panasonic PT 47WX49 or PT 47WX51 (new, again based on research & combo of features such as auto screen format, 16:9 aspect ratio, zoom etc.)SPEAKERS
Front & center: KEF Q-15 (old)
Sub: Paradigm PDR-10 (old)
Rear: Definitive Technology ProCinema 80s or JBL N24AW (new)
Cabling: Better Cables, Silver Audio, etc. (old)The key recommendations are DVD & TV. If anyone would like to steer me in a different direction, I'm all ears as Ross Perot once famously said. Future upgrades will probably include separate amp & preamp and sub. Thanks!
Follow Ups:
First of all, Good luck on the covert operations part of the plan. Unfortunately, I have been busted so many times, mine can tell if I'm just thinking of trying to pull a stunt and if so she steals my wallet and locks down the house.I think that set up will do very well for you. Only issues I see are 1) the display isn't a plasma, which, is fine, but it's not a plasma. I want a plasma. Especially the Panasonic plasma. That's what I want and you should get if you can afford it; and 2) The A/V receiver isn't one of my favorites. Instead, I'd rather see you have, say, the Lexicon MC-12/LX-7 combo, which, I also want, but again, can't afford. String all this together with the nicest cables you can possibly afford, but spending anything over about $5k on cables is just a waste, I think.
So, if you can sneak the plasma and the Lex combo past the wife, you might be just that little bit happier with the set-up overall, I think. Then, longer term, you might start thinking about saving for a full set of Aerial Acoustics or Revels all the way around, just to get that last little bit out of it you didn't know you were missing. But that's a long way off, at least three months.
Hope it helped, I know it helped me. Somehow, spending someone else's money frivolously always does.
I'm only spending about $2500, give or take depending on taxes, sales, etc. You're trying to make me spend five figures -- way outta my league!You're right, it's not the best receiver in the world. I may end up upgrading to, say, an Outlaw amp and whatever preamp/decoder rates highly in the $1K price range . . .
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