Thanks for responding so quickly Gonk! If you remember me saying on the "...perfect speaker" post that my budget was $1500 for speakers. Well, I figured my budget and in order to be able to purchase speakers at that price level I'll need to drop my available purchase cost for the receiver down quite a bit. I also found out how much I was going to have to spend on wiring everything up. I had originally forgotten to factor that in. To get to the point, I guess I would have to say that my new receiver budget is somewhere under $800 or so.

Mike