My current set up has just about worn thin on me. I love my speakers; vp150, m60's qs8's and m2i's...but the rest of my system; a 4 year old 52inch toshiba, a refurbished yamaha v2600 reciever, a denon 2910 dvd player, xbox360 w/HD DVD add on, a PS3...excluding the game systems of course...The other things feel so dusty to me. I'm looking to upgrade all those things plus add some more meat to my axiom system. Since I have no one else who'll indulge, enlighten, and take delight in this whole process, I felt compelled to post on my favorite AV forum.

These are the things I want to get for my new ht room...

1.Preferably a 144 inch projection screen. Atleast 120.

2.Either one of the two new high-performance entry level 1080p projectors; epson 1080 home cinema or the optoma hd80

3.One of the new next generation recievers(something mid priced with a lot of features, power not an issue, will use external amps) by your recommendations. Yamaha has soured me on recievers...

4.Concerning the adding of meat to my speakers, there are several configurations I've been considering;

I. An unlikely scenario, I have little hope it could work but I would love to do if it could -- FOUR vp150's, two on top and two on the bottom of the projection screen powered by two rpa-1 emotiva amps. My first choice was to use two m60's as the center channel to have four across the front, but I don't imagine I'll have that kind of room under the screen considering the size.

II. More likely scenario -- two vp150's, top and bottom, powered by an rpa-1, and axioms top of the line m80's as the mains(again, powered by an rpa-1), moving my m60's as the surrounds and QS8's as back surrounds(both powered by the reciever).

III. My next scenario I'm not very knowledgable about, but I've heard great results with -- two m22's as the center channel powered by the rpa-1. The rest would remain the same as I have it now. In what configuration would the m22's have to be in to get very good results? Is that set up preferable over vp150's?

5. Acoustical treatment on the cheap. I'm moving to a brick house(does that help?) that has a fairly large basement. I'd estimate about 3000 cubic feet. I'm gonna be putting a thick carpet there, as I hear that helps things. But I'm in the dark regarding room acoustics and treatments -- I know nothing of it. Where can I buy bass traps(what do bass traps even do?) and those foam pads that I see in fancy ht's? More importantly, where can I buy them on the cheap? Is there no cheating around room acoustics? If someone could link some info on the basics of room acoustics it would be extremely helpful. Of course your own insight and knowledge is even more welcome.

A note regarding recievers, the only one I've ever had is the yammie v2600...I hear great things from the likes of denon but there are a number of companies out there whose names have been thrown around in these boards but I can't seem to remember any of them. Audioholics really loves all things denon, but audioholics also sold me on the yammie, of which I'll never forgive them.