I have a brand-spanking new Pioneer 50" plasma panel (pdp-5070) and an equally pristine up-converting Oppo 981 DVD player sitting at home, ready to rock.
I want to build a modest surround sound system to go with this video setup.
The system will be used 75% of the time for viewing DVD's, and another 25% for pure music listening. No/next-to-no television usage.
While I will be connecting the Oppo directly to the Pioneer for audio via HDMI, I want to connect the Oppo to the receiver (also via HDMI) to process all the nice audio formats through my surround sound speakers.
I'm looking to spend between $1000 and $1300 total for the receiver and the 5 piece speaker-array. So I guess I'm looking to spend between $600-500 for the receiver and $600-500 for the speakers, respectively.
The receiver need not do any video upconverting whatsoever, as I plan on using the Oppo and the Pioneer's internal scalers for all the video. (Unless people have bad experiences with this combo? Opinions?)
So I solely need a receiver with HDMI inputs that will do a sophisticated job of processing all the audio format from the Oppo and getting it out to the speaker array.
Any suggestions?
Thanks so much for everyone's time.
-Leandro
EDIT: I live in a studio apartment, and my viewing/listening room area is about 16 ft. by 16ft.
