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Ok, so we made our decisions - thought i'd post for other newbies.

We ended up with:

Denon 2803
Axiom M22, M2(center), QS4
SVS 2039pci

After reading tons and tons of posts on speaker wire, i ended up using 14 gauge speaker wire from home depot. I considered 12 gauge, but from what I read, decided it wasn't worth the effort to battle with the larger cable. Also, I tried to make a subwoofer cable using RG6 coax and rca connectors, but that was more trouble than it was worth. For $15 I bought a premade 15' cable at Home Depot as well. Much easier.

First impressions - wow. The SVS absolutely shakes the house. The Axioms were crystal clear, full sounding. For the price (our total was about $2300 for everything), the system is incredible. Far better than Bose, and probably almost as good as systems costing much more.

The only thing left, is I'm still toying with upgrading to the M60's... the M22's are very nice, but the M60's would be even nicer - hmmm. Worth the $400 or not? Decisions, decisions.

Reasons for choosing what we did:

Denon - was the best price receiver that had what we wanted. Got it at Tweeter for $800. Found it online for $600, but all the online dealers are not Authorized Dealers, so you don't get the warranty from Denon. The Online dealer offers the warrenty - and personally I'd rather have the warranty from Denon. Salesguy at Tweeter recommended it over the Pioneer.

M22s - cheaper than the M60.

M2 - cheaper than the VP150 and according to John a better center channel. Seems like a win/win. Plus it fit in our entertainment center better than VP150 would.

QS4 - seems like plenty for our room - QS8 would probably be overkill. Right now we only have two - will add 2 more in the future for 7.1.

SVS 2039pci - first, decided the pc+ was way more than we needed for our room. so then to decide 25-31, 20-39, 16-46. eliminated the 16-46 as just too big - plus since we got the M22s for fronts, the 16-46 wouldn't fill in the higher bass tones as well. (although it could probably explode my floor.) so it was down to 2531 vs 2039 - ended up deciding the 2039 was a good compromise between higher and lower bass tones, plus it's only $50 more than the 2531. as a warning - the 2039 is HUGE - it doesn't just hide in a corner - it is a piece of furniture. i can't imagine the 1646. i also can't imagine actually needing the 1646 - we listened to LOTR part 1 at about -11db on the Denon and 1/2 power on the SVS, and it was more bass than you could want.