Home Theater or Two Chanel sound Quality ?


I am intending to instal a home theater sorround system. But the most important thing for me is a good quality two chanel sound system. I care a lot more about the two chanel sound quality than the the home theater setup.
I allready have a pair of Mirage OM5 and I am shopping for everything else.
Here are my questions:

1. I was recommended to get the Denon DVD-5900. Should I, instead, buy a sheaper dvd player for my movies and a separate cd player for better music quality?

2. As preamp I was recommended to get the B&K Reference 50 and as Amplifiers the two separate 200.1 mono and add later the Reference 200.3 for the home theater. Is this a good choice for my speakers ?

I am new in audio... so please... someone help me !

Thank you
zroland

Showing 1 response by soliver

I agree with Distortion above, I would have done it the same way if I had known what I was doing when I had purchased all my HT stuff several years ago.

If multi-channel music is at all important another decent option would be to get a multi-channal analog preamp like the MAP-1 from McCormack. Then you could perhaps get a high quality universal player that decodes DTS and Dolby Digital to feed the analog signals to the MAP-1.

But again my first choice would be to do as Distortion suggests above, it is what I am doing currently.