reluctant about home theater

A couple of things are required: 1. you must have enough room for correct speaker placement...many people do not. 2. You must have enough knowledge to set the system up...many people do not.

As some of the others mentioned above...If you do things correctly you will be a step ahead (not a step behind)...ie, you can have your cake, and eat it to.

Dave

Plato

"I don't know guys, I have a decent 5.1 system and I've watched and listened to MANY great 5.1 concerts on it"

I'm slighty confused...are you saying that: those same recordings sound better when played back in two-channel, rather than multichannel on "that" system?

Dave

I have an all VMPS speakers...Onkyo amps...Sunfire prepro system I use for hometheater. This multichannel system was my old system, and I have gone back to it's use not long ago.

I did put together a very high quality surround system which consisted of: All Apogee speaker system, all Krell amps, two channel tubed preamp, Sunfire prepro, Sony XA-777 multichannel SACD player, Pioneer DVD Video/DVD audio player, VMPS subwoofers, front projection,dedicated room, dedicated lines, bass traps...ect

The system sounded fantastic...so, (I know it can be done). That said, the main movie watchers in the family (wife/kids) could never quite grasp how to use the system...go get DAD became the standard mode.

The new (old system) has only 3 buttons to push...I never use it for anything other than movies, ie...it's always in the right mode and only needs to be turned on.

I hope your family is smarter than mine, funny...my 10 year old Grand Daughter had the best grasp of the bunch (she's kind of a hi-tech kid)...the rest of them have trouble with the Comcast remote control?

Dave