Hi there,

I have a 32 inch LCD TV and a Playstation 3 and am planning to have a HT set for my VERY small bedroom. My budget is RM 2500 and I was wondering if I should purchase a receiver plus 2 decent speakers then save my way up for a decent subwoofer and rear/centre speakers or just purchase a HTiB?

One of my main concerns with purchasing a receiver is that I'm afraid by the time I save up for decent rear speakers, my receiver may be so old that I'll have to change them and then it'd become a never ending loop of purchases! So I am more inclined to purchase a 5.1 HTiB set. Again, with my budget of RM 2500, is it even remotely possible to dream of 5.1 speakers + a decent receiver?

I originally planned to purchase a Sony HTS-BD2300 but it's discontinued and models like the HTS F360 and BDV-E300 are not available in Malaysia (according to the salesperson at Sony Style). I also looked at Pioneer's HTZ787 but I called up this shop and they told me that the model does not have any HDMI in.

Right now, I'm aiming for a Yamaha YHT591 and am hoping that some kind soul will be able to tell me if there are any Yamaha shops that sells Yamaha HTiB models because it seems most dealers just sell their amplifiers only.

I'm open to recommendations of any kind but it'd be preferable if the receiver/speaker combo or HTiB sets recommended will enable me to enjoy lossless audio.

Thank you for helping this damsel-in-distress here.