B&W HTM1D and Parasound A51?

Parasound dealer here. Let me understand your system first. Ideally, you would like the front three speakers to have the same power across the frontal stage. What are you using for L/R speakers and powering them?

In most cases the A51 will drive most any 5 channel system. However, the frontal stage usually demands more current than your surrounds. So, depending on you speakers, the JC1's might be the better choice. Give us some more detail and we'll direct as appropriate.

What is your dealer telling you?

Well, the planned update is 802D's and the HTM1D down the road. Right now I just have some low budget RTi12's doing the job with some Rotel RB-1091's powering them (500 watt RMS). The planned update for the L/R channels will most likely include an update to the amps as well (getting new JC1's). I'm planning on using a parasound amp for all the surrounds, that is for certain. Right now that's just some polk RTi6's (no need to update those anytime soon). As I've read it's pretty much only important to voice match the 3 fronts and not the surrounds. With that said the A51 is plenty of power for all of my surrounds. Is the extra channel going to be powerfull enough to drive the HTM1D? I hear that the HTM1D is basically the same speaker as the 802D which I know are very very demanding. Primary listening is going to be 2 ch stereo with multi-channel movies on rare occassions.

To sum it up what I'm looking at:

JC1's or 1091's and 802d's for L/R
A51 or A21's for the surrounds (initially RTi6 polks, later B&W's)
A51 or JC1 for HTM1D center <--- The question, will the A51 cut it also powering the surrounds?

Perhaps while you are at it you can answer 1 or 2 of my other parasound threads. Mainly the C1 vs C2 vs waiting for HDMI 1.3