The Denon's are definitely good stuff, from what I've heard. You might be interested in the DVD player shootout maintained at Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity. It does focus mainly on video performance, but with the 950 to do your audio decoding you will be mainly concerned with the video.

I am a huge fan of my Paradigm Studio CC, but cburbs is right to say that it is best to have the front three speakers match. You might double-check your calibration and make sure the center's not set low.

I don't have any experience with the hard drive music storage equipment, although I've been happily using a Panasonic DMR-E80 DVD recorder with an 80GB hard drive for about eight months now. The Marantz DH9300 and Integra NAS-2.3 both look pretty interesting -- in fact, looking at the specs and the front and rear panels, I tend to suspect that they are both derived from the same basic design, although the Marantz adds more video output options for separate zones.

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