Keep select components from your HT set up, sell the rest and put the money towards your 2 channel system. I did that exact thing a couple years back and could not be happier now, absolutely no desire to go back.
I was tired of trying to keep up with the ever changing surround formats and increasing number of speakers. I kept my receiver, DVD player, 2 bookshelf speakers and sub and moved it to the living room for tv, and movies. It's good enough. I'm getting so much more out of my 2 channel system now than I ever could have with an HT setup.
In my opinion, the few multichannel DVD-A and SACDs I've heard in surround systems (some were rather extravagent) still do not compete with straight 2 channel on a quality system.
I was tired of trying to keep up with the ever changing surround formats and increasing number of speakers. I kept my receiver, DVD player, 2 bookshelf speakers and sub and moved it to the living room for tv, and movies. It's good enough. I'm getting so much more out of my 2 channel system now than I ever could have with an HT setup.
In my opinion, the few multichannel DVD-A and SACDs I've heard in surround systems (some were rather extravagent) still do not compete with straight 2 channel on a quality system.