Mcclure

After doing a little more research I think my reciever choices are down to the Denon 1804, HK AVR-230 or the Yamaha. But I think I am leaning toward the HK right now from what I have read. It just sounds like Yamaha isn't as good for Klipsch and especially if I went with the one I was looking at. Is there a reliable site that sells the Denon or HK? Right now around here I'm looking at about $500 for either of them. My original budget was about $1500 and the speakers are going to cost about $1050 + tax. So I am pretty close right now. Plus I still need to get speaker wire, and stands. (No I'm not asking about what speaker wire to use)

I think if I get the right speaker stands I get set up the SS-3's at the corners of the couch. I could do the same with SB-3's. I also can't mount them to the walls because the house I am isn't mine so I don't want to start drilling holes in the walls to mount speakers. But after going to the store and measuring SF-3's and how high the speakers are in the box I just don't think they would work.

So I have read enough on these boards in the last week or two to see that most people recommend the Reference line, but I get a discount on the Synergy, and even with the discount I'll be pushing my budget. I was looking at the SF-2 with SC-1, SS-1, but when I actually listened to the speakers the SF-3's sounded a lot better so I think I'm now looking at the SF-3, SC-3, and SS-3. This leads to one of the questions, I hear a lot about getting the SF or SB for the surrounds instead of the SS, the room that I am currently going to be using would be a really tight squeeze for the SF-3's to be in the back. The couch is basically pushed against the rear wall, with a small (I probably have 1-1.5 feet on each side of the couch, so not a lot of room to angle them in) amount of room on each side for my current surround speakers. I could probably move the couch forward a 6 inches or so, but that is about it. This isn't going to be a permanent thing though so I can make stuff fit for now if it is going to be better when I finally get a bigger room. The second question is dealing with a receiver. I was looking at the Yamaha HTR-5660 (discount), but from what I have read I'm thinking about skipping the discount here and getting a Denon, from what I have seen, it looks like the 1604 or the 1804 are about as much as I can afford. Would that still be better than the HTR-5660? How much difference is there between the 1604-1804 and the 2803 (pretty much out of my price range)? Here is a list of everything that is going to be hooked up to the entertainment center. TiVo (S-video or composite) list the most important things first The TV is a 55" mitubitshi A03 (think that is the name of it, the Best Buy one from a year or so ago, before they started getting the same TV's as everyone else) DVD player (panasonic) (component) PS2 (component) XBox (component or composite) Nintendo 64 (composite, this kind of sits off on the side, and isn't used much) Computer (S-video) I can't really see getting too much more to hook up to the TV anytime soon, maybe upgrade the PS2 or Xbox in a year or more, but that is about it. I think it would be nice to be able to run it all into the receiver though, instead of having the change the input on the receiver and change the input on the TV everytime I want to change inputs. It isn't so bad for me, but sucks when I have to teach someone what to do. Right now I have a cheap Sony system ($300 for receiver, and 5.1 speakers) So this will be a huge improvement pretty much no matter what I get. Thanks for any help. Edit: To go with the speaker set up I was also looking at the KSW-12