Update:
I had a listen to these systems yesterday. The denon amp sounded good but I could really tell the difference between it and Arcam AVR 250. Arcam it is then.
Speakerwise I'm happy with the 2005 Kef satellite's but the subwoofer with that package lacked a bit in AV - so I upgraded that to the sub out of the 5005 package and it was cool, you could feel the sofa rumble in certain scenes in the Matrix and some of the other AV samples. (I used the chapters in the first movie where Trinity and Neo enter the lobby to rescue Morpheus through to when the helicopter crashes into the side of the building)
I measured out my room and it's not really big enough to justify the 7.1 surround. So I'm going to run it 5.1 and bi-amp the front two RS1's for audio (takes the power that would drive the 2 extra channels for 7.1 and uses them as extra power to drive the main two speakers when using audio. When I'm listening to a CD it will only be two channel audio - if that makes sense!). The RS1's were quite good, I was very impressed.
Some of you are rolling your eye's now ... WTF is he on about ...
So I'm actually going to get the AVR 300 AV receiver for the extra power, especially in bi-amp mode where I'm expecting the RS1's to sound quite tasty. It was really quite good listening to Comfortably Numb, David Gilmour's guitar solo was really crisp and clear and the Denon had it sounding more blurred together ... I listened to it in the car on the way home and it sounded crap .. I can see a new car stereo on the horizon now ... it's a bottomless pit, and here I thought I'd gotten over my carbon and titanium addiction for the bike....
So there you have it
