what to address first

Hey Ken, why are you upgrading?? Your setup is pretty great. Give us some help as to what you don't like or do you just have the bug?

Ken,

You have very nice equipment as is. I would stick with the Arials, unless you want to swap out all your speakers for a different brand. You could go to a 6 or 7 channel system if you have the room for it.

In general home theater sound distribution is:

50% center channel
40% L/R channels
10% Surround

You might get more improvment/$$$ in your system by working with acoustics at this point.

I agree with the power conditioning suggestion. You can improve the audio and video with this as well.

thank you all. i neglected to say that i do indeed have individual dedicated outlets and an Exact Power conditioner. I just feel the audio of my home theatre isn't quite there yet. To be honest, I do have a little of the bug.I have been wanting the 20T's but there seem to be better speakers for home theatre.What should I do???

Place your order for the APL-modified TEAC Esoteric UX-1 universal player that APL calls the NWO-1 and sells for about $19k (you will no longer need a preamp). Imagine the performance when you merge the undeniably finest transport mechanism built with perhaps the most talented modifier. Check out aplhifi.com for more info.

Next audition a pair or set of Nuforce Ref 9 Special Edition amps which retail for only $4400 a pair.

You can also do better regarding scs and ics far better regarding line conditioning.

-IMO