The room!
To have the best of both worlds you are going to have to make compromises with your room acoustics for both HT & 2-channel audio. In theory you can not have both. On HT the room must be dead and in 2-channel audio the room is live. But since you are looking to "75% home theater, 25% good stereo listening"....You should able to cross the gap very nicely. Before jumping the gun on any hardware purchase, you need to answer the following questions:
What is your room dimensions?
What is your RT60 value?
And at last, someone asked the question already, Is the video is part of the $50k budget?
The room has the most influence on any piece of hardware you can buy. You can buy the most expensive hardware known to man and it wont make a bit of difference if you have sh*tty acoustics in your. ItÂ’s just like throwing your money down the toilet! You have a lot of research to do, enjoy.
To have the best of both worlds you are going to have to make compromises with your room acoustics for both HT & 2-channel audio. In theory you can not have both. On HT the room must be dead and in 2-channel audio the room is live. But since you are looking to
What is your room dimensions?
What is your RT60 value?
And at last, someone asked the question already, Is the video is part of the $50k budget?
The room has the most influence on any piece of hardware you can buy. You can buy the most expensive hardware known to man and it wont make a bit of difference if you have sh*tty acoustics in your. ItÂ’s just like throwing your money down the toilet! You have a lot of research to do, enjoy.