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Alan will fly you to Dwight, roll out the Red Carpet for you, bring out all the Axiom workers and present you with an Axiom Pen. That's what I heard anyway.

I have this dream, of never going to the movies again and laying on my sweet furniture in my sweet basement with my girl watching movies with the 7.1 surround sound and the huge TV and my head spinning and well this Axiom 80-600 HTS caught my eye I want it badly in 7.1 and with a good 7.1 Denon receiver my dream can come true !

I say forget the huge TV and get a projector and huge 130" screen like me, then you will never ever go to the movies again.

Boy I wish I had the room to put in something like that!

Rookie, are you planning on buying this stuff now before you have the house? Are you planning to use it or pack it away?

The reason I ask is things change all the time. The speakers are a good investment since good speakers today will still be good in 3 years. However, a good AVR today will be outdated tomorrow. Plus, if you are not using them now, the warranty will be wasted in storage.

Rook, welcome. That Yamaha should be fine with the Epic 80-600 in the vast majority of setups. As is true of all amplifiers, including those in receivers, if they get driven hard enough and long enough their protective circuits will shut them down, but generally there's no problem when they're used sensibly. Note that the "massive speaker system", as you called it doesn't necessarily require massive power; in fact very often the bigger speakers in a line are more sensitive than the smaller ones and require less power. This is the case with the M80s, which require less power than many smaller speakers.

My vote is for Denon 3808. I don't know the specs on the 2900 series of Denon's, but 3808 has MultEQ XT (Audyssey). Having tried both MultEQ and MultEQ XT, the extra filters on the XT version made a big difference for me.

I just started using Internet radio on the Denon and it worked really well. I was pretty surprised how well it worked. I was able to listen to Korean stations with no issues whatever.

The ability to save off configs via the builtin web server should not be overlooked (if you like to tinker).

You can configure just about anything you'd like on the 3808 and it's a nice system.

But if you're not going to buy it for another 8 months or so, wait and see what comes out. If nothing else, the 3808's will be that much cheaper.

Oh, and don't forget to include a nice remote (URC MX900 is the one I have and *LOVE* it).

I just saw this thread over at AVS: "Denon 2809CI vs 3808CI differences" It's pretty comprehensive.

My idea revolves around the fact that at the end of the summer I get the basement when my sister moves out...meaning a bedroom and the basement living room so I was thinking it'd be nice if I bought the receiver and epic 80-600 set up and had it on me when I move out in 3 years...however im starting to think maybe I should just wait until I move out because in 3 years everything will change...hopefully in a less expensive direction lol