I also suggest you go the receiver+speaker way since money is not a big issue. The Klipsch's aren't bad speakers, it's just that receiver+speakers will beat any multimedia set. And if you do decide not to go to the trouble of getting all that stuff, you should get the ba4800's over the klipsch's since you can get the ba4800's for 130 and they haveas good if not better sound quality than the Klipsch's. Plus, you could get two sets of the ba4800's for CHEAPER than one set of the Klipsch's.