state of the art home theatre....

For god's sake, buy your dad some pants Phasecorrect!

Marco

Phasecorrect,

I couldn't tell if $10K - $15K was the budget for the whole system or just the video portion.

FWIW, I have a similar sized room and found a significant improvement in surround envelopment when I went from a 5.1 to a 7.1 system. I don't know if that was a pecularity of my particular room, a characteristic of rooms of this general size, or whatever, but I was not a happy camper with the 5.1 setup.

I recommend getting a 7.1 set-up, or at least pre-wiring for that for easy expansion as budget allows.

Also recommend getting a PrePro/Receiver than can do justice to generating 7.1 outputs from the sources you would envision using. For example, I do not consider duplicating the side speaker signals into the rear speakers to be a very good way of achieving 7.1 sound.

Bruce

Kick mom out,install killer HT buy Dad a hottub get him a new squeeze.Rule of thumb on the new squeeze,half mom's age.Or divide by three and keep it over 18.

Hey..lets leave my momma out of this...but we can do better than in-wall speakers fellas!

Ok so what are you thinking now Phasecorrect? After the input, what have you gathered, or what dirrection are you thinking you're headed?