Building a surround system

[admin_exported]

Hi all,

I currently have a 5.1 setup which is about 7 years old, and cost very little (a Cambridge Soundworks decoder/amp with 5.1 speakers) - amazingly good for the price, but soon I'd like to move on. I was wondering whether anyone had any suggestions about how to build up on the stereo system I have at the moment -

- in terms of other speakers I was thinking of adding the monitor audio RSFX, RSLCR and RSW-12, which should be a decent match for the RS6s I already have

- the main consideration is about the receiver/amp - do surround amps have pre-outs so that the stereo amp can deal with the left and right channels? Any thoughts about what might provide a balanced match for my Cyrus amp to drive the other speakers. Is the AV Master any good? Any other thoughts?

I probably don't want to spend more than £2000-£2500 on the whole lot.

Thanks very much.

 

[Big Chris]

Just a quick question. Do you need an A/V amp to do any picture processing, or require HDMI upconverting/upscaling?

 

[Anonymous]

Would be likely to feed the tv from an upscaling DVD player/playstation 3 or similar so I guess not.