I would recommend the Yamaha recievers too. If you don't wanna fork out the extra scratch for a Yamaha 640, look at the 440 for $399. Secondly, could I get a definition for "nice Sony Wega TV" please. Is the TV HD ready? If it is, I would also highly recommend looking at your DVD player a little more closely. I can give you about a 99% assurance that your "progressive scan" DVD player is not a
true progressive scan player. A
true progressive scan DVD player has an internal de-interlacer (more accurately called a re-interleaver, but that's another story). The 2 processors on the market are the DCDi chip from Faroudja, and the PureProgressive from Silicon Image. This is a feature worth bragging about, believe me, if a player has it, it will advertise it up on the front panel. It would take me all day to explain the differences in a $100-150 Sony, JVC, Panasonic, Hitachi, Toshiba, Zenith, Philips and so on.. "progressive scan" DVD player versus that of a
true progressive model from higher end companies such as Denon and Yamaha. Long story short, a non, or "fake" progressive player will choke on motion and fire and curved lines and about a billion other things. Head over to
www.dcdi-video.com for the full story in explicit detail. Once you see the shortcomings of a cheap "progressive" player, you'll never be able to NOT notice them again.
Now, about the speakers, Monitor Audio speakers are very nice. But for what it sounds to me like you would like to do, I think you'd be better off with the Klipsch. If saving money is in mind, then you could go with the RB-3's and RC-3, but you might want to look at their "new" Reference series speakers. The entry level Reference models are very close to a Synergy Series pricepoint and humble them in performance. You could get a pair of RB-15 bookshelves and an RC-15 center for not much more.
You'll have plenty of low frequency goin on too in that tile floored room too!