You can find the Cary Audio Cinema 6 used around here for just over $1500. It really excels at sound quality for both music and HT. It's missing many of the bells and whistles, but has the latest sound formats, is easy to operate, and its sound quality in both 2 channel and multichannel just slays anything near its price.
In fact I've had a number of people say that they've flat out never heard a better sound system anywhere - and that was playing 2 channel music through a HT Pre/Pro, 5 channel amp, and DVD player (all Cary). On AVS there are two individuals I've PM's that both used to own the Parasound Halo gear (megabuck) and prefer the sound of the Cary.
One other nice thing is that running all your component video through the Cinema 6 doesn't cause even the slightest degradation of picture quality - whether HD, DVD or whatever. Good luck!
