Home Theater Choice Help

[matthewrounds]

Do you want a 5.1 or 7.1 setup? Do you listen to music, is this primarily a move viewing room? What is going to your receiver (input devices via HDMI besides the blu-ray player)?

I will split the difference of your budget to $2500 and recommend the following budgets:

$300 for the blu-ray player, Sony BDP-S350 (Let your receiver decode DTS HD MA)
$800 for the Receiver (the one Driver King suggests looks great)
$100 for cabling www.monoprice.com, Do not forget this in your budget, it will kick you in the butt later
$315 for the Sub Elemental Designs A2-300
$1000 for the speakers. I am by no means a speaker expert so I will let others decide. Plus this will depend on whether you go 5.1 or 7.1

You will ultimately upgrade your components, I bought by first real HTS four months ago and already upgraded the center and sub (coming soon I hope). Once you get the bug its hard to stop.