I am a 2 channel fan, I have 5.2 in my living room but that is more for the wife and kids...
With out knowing your budget, it could be low judging by your $300 surround sound or it could be high since you had 10 years to save up????
If you can afford these, I would go with a set of
http://www.amazon.com/Debut-Bookshelf-Speakers-Andrew-Jones/dp/B014GSEQ06/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1445881457&sr=8-3&keywords=elac+speakers
I got a chance to hear them recently and actually took them home to hook them to my system to poke around with them a bit, my brother has them running off a little tri path in an outside room with no walls just ceiling and screen walls on 3 sides...
I took them home and hooked them up to an emotive mini X, I have to say they are all there, nice speaker for the money, nice accurate speaker, they do lean towards what I label as (store stuff), because I think they are made a bit bright to sound good in say a "best buy parking lot sized store", which is fine, but then you get them to your cozy home office and them strong highs end up blasting you in the forehead... Leads to listening fatigue in short order. BUT they are not as bad as some B&W's, JBL's, and other I heard, I tend to lean towards speakers that I can listen to for a long time, they may not JUMP out at you in the first 5 seconds because they lack that unrealistic, bright clear seeming top end, instead that is replaced with a realistic warm sound that you can fall asleep to and listen to for an 8 hour shift...
But anyway, for a few hundred bucks, if you can get your hands on a set, jump on them, they are OK...