Quote Originally Posted by RGA
As for the Money break-down I would do as the others have said and do home theater later -- get two channel audio done right -- you will fnd that many 2 channel audio companies have little interest in gizmos like home theater.

Dynaudio is one of the best slim line designed speakers currently on the market -- luckily the slim line design is not the ONLY kind of cabinet design out there but it is the most common so you are likely to hear the same KIND of sound from most others of similar shape.

In your budget you would do well to look at tube amplification and higher sensitivity speakers. This is my prefernece in music listening and it may be yours. Worth a shot to find out.
Yeah, 2 channel is my priority. So good idea to get that done right, first.

I've only just started to audition speakers. Only heard the Dynaudio 52 SE and 72 SE so far. I wasn't impressed. Somehow, I was expecting more from such well regarded speakers. They seemd pretty flat to me. Maybe it was the CD I brought- a CD made of tunes I ripped onto my computer. But I don't have much of a reference point. So the shopping will continue.