Do you know the sensitivity/efficiency of the loudspeakers you'll be using in your new HT? When I first purchased Outlaw gear, my choice was between 100WPC or 200WPC. Because my speakers were below average in sensitivity/efficiency, I chose 200WPC to buy back 3dB. Generally speaking, I think that sensitivity/efficiency in the high eighties to low nineties for 1W at one meter is average. My loudspeakers were in the mid-eighties at best, so the extra 3dB brought me up the same acoustical output as average sensitivity/efficiency speakers driven at up to 100WPC. Even a true 100WPC is too much for driving most consumer loudspeakers if you were to push the maximum continously, but having the capability for 100 or 200 watts per channel when outputing one to ten watts per channel on average means that the occasional spiking transient will be handled cleanly.