About three months ago my 8 year old Onkyo receiver went lights out (literally). I could still operate the thing, but my wife could not. Taking this as an opportunity to go from Pro Logic to at least 5.1 the quest for a new receiver began. After much research and many trips to local audio/video stores here is the result:

Denon 3802
SVS 25-31 PCi

and today

M60ti mains
QS8 surrounds
VP150 center

I will add another pair of QS8's at a later date.

This has been an expensive A/V reciever.