Need Recommendations On Surround Speaker Package

I second slappy's magnepan recommendation. Maggies and Adcom should be dynamic as all hell. Highly recommended for the dollar. Ditto on Exertfluffer's handle. For some reason, that comes to my mind everytime I see him, weird huh? Speaking of Exertfluffer, I must not have ever heard one of those truly dynamic music/HT demos. In this, I think all of the high-end dealer and shows I gone to have beena failure. You would think one outfit would be able to manage a demo like that! Quite a shame. As far as passive speaker setups for HT go, I like Magnepan fed by Krell amps. Explosive dynamics, IMO. But Adcom would be close enough in this case, although less forgiving than even old Krell KAV series.

Yeah, just for the record, there never has been an "explosive anything" coming out of ANY MAGANAPAN SPEAKER, EVER!!!!! I know, I've sold maggies for years now.
Maggies are dynamically challenged to say the least, and especially challenged when you hit the "GO BUTTON" on your power pedal!
Basically they're very delicate speakers that do better with lower level dynamic material. I mean you're not going to ever get any "sock in the stomach" from a rock performance from a pair of Maggies. Now you might blow the ribbons out of the suckers,(have done that before by having them tip over on the floor by accident) but that's about it. Other than that, they're beautiful, very pretty, clear, detailed speakers as a line...but delicate none the less. I know, I've sold em for years now. Infact when the word Dynamics comes to mind, I DON'T THINK MAGGIES, THAT'S FOR SURE!
Oh, and as for the "Exertfluffer" thing, it's a handle I concockted(he he) for Yahoo mail, because I was running out of ideas that wouldn't need a number mixed in with the letters at the time. And that day my friends and I were making jokes about fluffers, and there you are.

Try Totem Dream Catcher 5.1 package. I think they cost around 1500.

I understand that Von Schweikert is debuting a new set of HT on-wall speakers in the next month or so. It may be worthwhile to check them out...

Exertfluffer, Ya know im really glad you mentioned that about the maggies. Ive never seen a "crappy" review so i have a har time believing what magazines say. I was thinking of getting some of those maggies for my HT setup. If they are not that dynamic then i will definatly have to pass.

I wonder about a setup using all Von-Sw's VR-1s.

Ugh... it is SO nice to get an upgrade done and over with. it is all this research and effort put into attempting to find a match soundwise and asthetically, seems like out of 10 possibilitys 9 of them wont work.