Starting from Scratch -- My New Home Theater Thread

[Race Bannon]

All right, we moved in August. Been focusing on some other aspects. But I want to hit the ground running in 2015.

Starting over. There's a HUGE room available that is the perfect location for a home theater (20' by 30').

I enjoy choosing components, but I want to choose a self-consistent set of elements that works well together -- i.e, nothing is really "too much" quality held back by a bottleneck elsewhere in the system.

These are the paramenters:

Budget: Lower end of high quality, the value zone. Think Polk floor speakers that cost $500 a piece. Projection TV that costs $700 for the projector. So all in, the budget is probably less than $5,000.

I'd like to go separates on the amplification, with perhaps a value-priced professional post amp like a Crown.

Any specific model recommendations for:

1. Pre-processor
2. Amp
3. Projector
4. Screen
5. All speakers.