Currently I have Monitor 7s and a C290. My dealer allows me to upgrade every year (substracting out the cost of the prior years speakers), plus I can get a 20% discount. This year I think I might jump to a 390 and either the 9s of the 11s. But the following year - cash flow permitting - I'd like to jump to the studio line C 690 and either the Studion 60s (most likely) or the 100s.
The sub is a paradigm sub, not great - will eventually go with SVS I think.
Overall the speaker upgrades will take the next two years.
But my present receiver ain't so good - its an older yammy HTR model.
I'd like something with solid sound and some of the newer video processing capabilities. But multizone/multisource is key, I need 2 zones, both powered from the receiver. I do not play loud - have young kids and the monitors take almost no power to drive them anyway - they are very sensitive.
I am looking at the Onkyo 805, the Yammy 1800, Denon 2808ci and perhaps the Sherwood 872. All are at, or slightly north of 1000 (though I probably won't buy until after the new year - looking for sales, possibly).
I am not opposed to separates either, but my currenty year budget for a receiver is 600 - 1000. So, if the feedback is that I should get a lower end receiver now (assuming I do not lose audio quality) and then add an amp later, I'd like to thoughts on that as well (though I think I lose multizone capabilities with a lower end receiver).
Basically I would like a good short term solution that I can build on as my needs/system grows.
If it helps at all, my video source is a crappy Samsung DVD player (to be upgraded when the war is officially declared tie) and a crappy motorola cable box. But these feed a Sammy plasma.
