Home Theater or stick with 2 channel?

Incorporating my two channel system with HT I lost much of the two channel imaging I worked so hard to get right so I gave up in favor of separate systems.

There is still a sweet spot with HT but it's much more forgiving. I recently upgraded my receiver to a newer 7.1, HDMI 1.3 with the latest codes and room correction and the difference is amazing. My HT area is in an awkward corner and adjusting the simple distance and level settings never came close to what room correction has done.

I think the decision could be easily made based on economics (unless you're 'filthy' rich ;-) Not to oversimplify it, but you could have a great 2ch system and a thrilling separate HT system for far less money than a combined system would cost, if it was all the same quality (as the parts required for just 2ch.)

I built around my 2 ch rig when I went about adding on an HT system. I don't find that either system suffered much if at all as I adjusted the other speakers physically to coorelate to the two ch setup.

I do use only the HT electronics for HT, though. None of my 2 ch audio devices are in play at that time, except some speaker cabling and the main speakers & sub. the pre & amps aren't used then. I am thinking about using the mono blocks though, and relegating the SS amp to the surrounds. But the hooking and unhooking each time has put me off that idea for a while now.

the 'two room' idea is a good one as well. I just feel both can occupy the same space if you want them too, without it being a really big deal or too difficult. It depends on just picky you wanna be I suppose. BTW I use the TX SR 805.