What is the cubic footage? What will be the seating distance from the speakers? What is your overall budget? Are you going to be re-using any of your current equipment? What is the current equipment by model #?
As example if your HK 5.1 receiver has full 5.1 analog inputs you could use it as an amp for surrounds and then get a couple of Crown amps for the front LCR. No need on spending $$ on Parasound or the like when it's not going to net you anything. Also a higher end receiver may be all you need vs external amplification.
Thanks for responding.
Total family room is around 600sft.
Disatance from equipment will be around 8-10ft.
If I can reuse some of the stuff from my equipment which goes well with other, then its good.
My budget is 3000-4000$ (not including tv).
My 5.1 receiver is not good as it has one HDMI input and I am looking at a minimum of 4 inputs already.
For high end receiver, I need 4k ultra HD, I was thinking about pioneer elite 700 or marantz (NR1604 or SR5008). Is one of these a good idea or should I go for something else?
I am also looking at B&W 600 series 5.1 HT setup which you can get used or a M&K. I dont have much knowledge on M&K though. What do you think?