Is a home theater even worth it or doable?

Why not just add a TV to your two channel system? We love watching TV and movies through our stereo, and never miss the extra channels of audio. We did invest in a very nice TV, one of those that renders black as very black; and it was well worth the money. For sound, I just grab the audio from the back of the TV with an optical cable and into the DAC-60 card of an Accuphase E-5000. And, by saving the expense of three or even more extra speakers, all of the investment can optimize the stereo pair. In our case, it's a pair of Borresen Z3 Cryos. We do have a pair of subs too, and the sheer power of this system imbues movies with most of the visceral sound one would get in a theater.

Regards, Oran

85” tv screen do not consider anything but Sony.

@sgreg1

+1

Over the last few years I needed to upgrade our tvs. There were realy only three choices: Samsung, LG, and Sony. The most reliable and best looking were always Sony. I bought two: a 77” OLED for our home theater and a 65” regular LED for our bedroom.

They both failed… the OLED in 14 months (top of the line so warrantee was 18 months.. they sent a brand new replacement. The regular LED failed at 11 months… within the 12 month warrantee… in twelve days a repair man came and replaced a module and it has been fine since.

Sony is statistically shown to be the most reliable and their top of the line has the longest warrantee, so after this experience (I had Sharp for about a decade since I worked there)… i’ll be buying top of the line Sony from now on.

They have excellent pictures as well.

If you are into movies then absolutely especially the big spectacle movies with lots of effects if you can manage to set up a fully immersive surround sound system with two or more subwoofers.

Be aware that streaming audio for movies is usually not as good as what you get with Blu-ray or HD Blu-ray discs.

Oh yeah!  Movies thru a good system is a blast. I have the Sony Bravia 86 inch and recommend it. Using a preamp for 2channel music and a pre/pro for movies and TV. Both share the power amp and front speakers and a subwoofer, integrated thru the preamps. Have two side surrounds which adds up to a 4.1 system - no center channel. 
 

I tell people I don’t go to the movies anymore because the sound is better at my house. And I can stop the action and go to the bathroom when I want. 😉

interestingly, movies and TV don’t tax my system as hard as 2channel music does