Hope I posted this in the right section….

Ok after “lurking” in the plasma section I finally got my 58” Panasonic plasma now I’m looking for the speaker set up… It’s in a room that’s approx 20-3 x 11-10 (sit approx 16 ft away from T.V.) that has a wide open archway into the kitchen… All that I have (and plan on having) is an HD Rogers box and a PS3… I have a budget of $1200 - $1500 CDN…. Not too much music, mostly games, movies and T.V.

After going to a few stores, some big box some small it’s pretty much came up to two different ways of going about this….

1) Get it all at once with Onkyo HT-6100 which no one has showed me but kept on saying how it was a really big seller… Also would be able to upgrade w/ a 606 receiver (which has some good reviews from my browsing)

OR

2) Build it piece by piece… One of the smaller stores recommended this and I never even thought about it before…. They we’re recommending a Denon AVR1909 receiver w/ a pair of Paradigm Monitor 7 tower speakers… They let me here them by themselves and what it could sound like once all the other stuff is in place…

I was impressed but the three items but they were more expensive then the whole Onkyo package… I’m not an “audiophile” but I do like good equipment, otherwise I wouldn’t have splurged for the panny…

Any thoughts or recommendations would be most appreciated… This forum has helped me before on my purchase; hopefully it can do the same one least time.

Thanks

I'd recommend building your system up slowly. Start with the receiver and buy some inexpensive used speakers - or some new ones on sale - which you can sell once you're in a position to upgrade.

If you can't get all the speakers at once, consider a stereo set-up at first, then add the center channel speaker and/or the subwoofer, then finish off with some surrounds.

If you check CanuckAudioMart(.com) or local used sites such as [CityName].********** and Used[CityName].com, you can very often find good deals on used gear.