Of course, we would all love to have the budget for multi-channel power amps to send juice to EACH of our loudspeakers in our home theater systems, and parametric EQs to control the sound of EACH of those amps with 100s of thousands of watts, but for those of you running more "realistic" systems such as I am, with a receiver at the heart of that system, do you feel that it's sufficient in satisfying your home theater needs? Are receivers, for the most part, if they are of a good grade, "good enough" to power a home theater system alone WITHOUT going separate power amp and pre/pro combos?

How many of you are running just one simple receiver to power your surround sound system, and how are you finding the kind of job it is doing?