M22 on-wall, VP100 on-wall and an EP175 should leave you enough in your budget for a pretty decent receiver I would think. If you find that a little too close to going overbudget you could try going through the factory outlet to save some $$. Don't worry about the quality of the FO speakers, at worst they will have some very minor blemishes, at best you'll see no blemishes at all and sonically they are the same as the non-FO speakers.


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