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if you spend 5000 on equipment spend 500 on cables and wiring. thats what i did and i am completely happy with my sound quality. you do have to make compromises. spend the money where it will be used the most. if you usually listen to only music and not much tv spend more money on the interconnects from the music sounrce than from the tv source and so on.
Well, Chris, I don't want to belittle your decisions or make you less happy, but if I were in exactly the same situation, I would have spent the bulk of those $500 to buy more CDs/DVDs. That would give me infinitely more tangible "improvements" in my AV experience -- in fact, the most expensive part of my own AV "system" has always been and will remain my music CD/LD/DVD collections.
