Really good news is that the speakers today, that only out of your price range will be sold at a price lower than this time next year. Of course, there will be even better speakers on the market at that time. If you save your moey for the next year you can upgrrade to the system are much higher, even whille you are enjoying the system you alreayd have all the time. Imagine how much more pleasure you get from your investment as soon as you have an updaet?
You can upgraade one piece at a time, and never have to do without in order to achieve excellent sound quality that just keeps getting better. Although I know on the one hand, that the vitim's good for my soul, I never get too excited about the refusal of things that bring me peasure, in order to get better lter. Performing so I get great sound, utnil I save, even for the best sound in the future.
The firt thing you need to do is set prioritiues. If you are looking for a surround souynd stystem, and then focus on that instead of flaashing back and forth between home theater and surrround osund systm. You'll do much better cost and quality wise to go with surround soud sysem, not a home theater in a box kind of kit in the same price range and the only major difference is that a set of home theater in a box occurs when a DVD player. The victim is usually in the loudspeaker when buying a kit like this for your home. Not only can you save money when buying surrond sound system, as a standalone system, you can get ebtter quality in both sound and DVD / DVR, if you buy them separately, not together.
You can find the speaers and components for the surround in various price ranegs. You want to be sure that if you buy a box set for a surround systrem that all parts and components you need in order to get the sound cinema. Set your buddget before the satrt of tradnig however, and do not let yourself be talked into something that is byond your budget.