Henry66,
If you plan to have the front speakers hooked up for 2 or 3 years and then possibly add more speakers I would suggest getting a cheap stereo receiver such as
http://www.amazon.com/Sherwood-RX-4105-2...4143&sr=8-1 first. Down the road it could be used in another room or a garage to play some music. Receivers are changing almost as fast a computers are lately. So two years from now there may be some new thing out that you wish you had and you already invested a good deal of money in a receiver that right now you don't need. If however you plan to add more speakers in 6 months or so, then go ahead and get a good receiver with features that you think you would probably like to use when the new speakers get added to the system. Just a suggestion.
