Quote Originally Posted by Resident Loser
...a $600 HTIB or similarly priced gear is not going to sound like a $5000 system...The primary weak link will be the loudspeakers. Typical HTIB inclusions simply won't have low frequency extension or the ability to provide the SPLs of well chosen and matched individual components...It's simply a matter of cost vs. performance and simple physics...And power requirements are another matter entirely...

To the OP: Start with the loudspeakers and build from there...they will dictate your power requirements and the rest will follow...

jimHJJ(...FWIW...)
Holy role reversal, Batman! How often is it that jim comes off as the gearhead?