I started years ago with a 27" tv, laserdisc and Infinity Kappa 9 & kappa 8 speakers with Adcom amps. Still have the adcom amps, but everything else got much bigger.

I am working on a "reference room" for my home theater obsession. Until then, this behemoth is in my living room, which cannot house or supply the current to run all this gear, so I don't have a good picture of everything running. I am still short 6 channels of amps and could stand to get a better remote control.

I don't run a subwoofer, but all channels are flat to 15 Hz and with 32 12" woofers, having a sub is just silly. I have been considering an Odyssee Motion Simulator, but I haven't been able to view an entire movie with it to determine if I would get tired of it, like my old DSP modes on a previous pre-pro.

Having IRS Betas, I wanted surrounds that matched, so I got IRS Gammas. I then saw a deal on another pair of betas I couldn't pass up, so I got them and decided to run the gammas as a center channel. When the IRS V became available, I had to have them and that put me with 2x beta in the rear, which is better for having non-localized rears, although they are a bit large for surrounds. Still, they match drivers well with the IRS V and come on, betas for surrounds, what is cooler than that?

Actually, for home theater, the star of the system isn't the IRS V, but the HTPC, which can do damn near anything. The DVD output of it is flat out amazing and unless I get a Teranex, it will likely remain king of the video chain for a while. In addition to the scaled DVD, it works as an escient controller for my CD changer, is able to do the same with DVDs, of which I can put maybe 140 on my media server, fully uncompressed. Plus, it can record HDTV and pause HDTV, just like TIVO (although not as user friendly).

This is a work in progress, but I suppose it will always be.

Although this is a home theater, it is also set up for 2 channel audio and as such, I put it in the all out assault category, as that is really a more accurate description of what this system is doing.