Now that's what a guy likes. Good advice.

My mains are the Infinity IL-60, which is a powered tower. I have them set as small
(including the powered sub). So everything below 80hz goes to my sub. This really makes
the sub in the towers a powered woofer, not a sub woofer. My main complaint with these
speakers is not the lower end, but the upper. They seam to lack some detail and imaging that I have heard in other speakers. I have shopped online and looked at other brands,
but when you are talking mains, a center, surrounds and back surrounds (7.1) 5K goes
away awful fast.

One reason I am looking at a new tv is the light in my room. I do have dark heavy curtains
that block all but two high windows. So viewing during the day is ok, but not great. I have
read that many of the newer technologies have greater light output than a crt based set.
Black levels have gotten close to crt quality as well.

I am lucky enough to get ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, Discover, TNT, HDnet, HDmovies, ESPN, and 10 voom channels in HD. I know alot of what is shown is not HD, but all
you have to do is watch one football game in hd and it makes it worth it.