Help me plan my next upgrade

2-piece projection either front or rear. For an immersive home theater experience you want to be sitting arround 1.5 screen widths. At normal living room seating distances (beyond 9 feet) this isn't possible with the largest one-piece consumer televisions (~ 80" diagonal rear projection).

Power conditioners make a world of difference in every aspect of a home theatre. They improve color and clairty on televisions of every type, and improve sonic performance like no other add-on peice of equipment can.

Monster makes the most affordable units and the HTS 5100 Signature series would be a definite asset to your system.

As for cabling, not all cables are created equal. Technology does matter. However I have found that once you get to 100-400 a meter for interconnects they are built well and have a considerable amount of technology for the guy that cant spend 10K on cables.

I too had the DS989. I made the jump to Bryston Separates SP1.7 Processor and five 7B SST amplifiers.

Best of luck on your search for Audio Nirvana

Dedicated line and good cheap Power Cords (disclaimer, yada yada yada). RSVP. Ern

Lots of good suggestions so far. I'd like to add cabling, especially power cords now that you'll have a real amp. Perhaps Shunyata matching (1 pacesetter/1 noise reduction) cords or Synergistic Research. Now that you're changing the sound of your system dramatically, I believe that you try to help each component be the best it can be.

A front projector..if you have the room.

Dave

1) Plasma TV?
2) Replacement of in-wall speakers with true conventional speakers?
3) Dual HSU or SVS powered subs?
4) Progressive DVD player?
5) Power conditioner?
I don't know your budget, and I'm assuming that your pref. is 50% HT & 50% music (possibly DVD concert).