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The best way to achieve that seamless feel with home theater is to use the same brand all around. Every speaker manufacturere has a "house sound" and will design all of their models to sound that way, and will often use the same driver (speaker) in different models to achieve it. So brandon's idea of getting all those Klipsch units together has a mad scheme to it. I have heard systems with unmatched speakers sound OK, but there were "holes" in the transition between speakers. It bothered me and pointed it out to my ears.
As for receivers, I have nothing to add to brandon.
Remember that systems will sound one way in a showroom, and another way in your home. Make sure you keep your room dimensions in mind. If you demo systems in a room smaller than your own, you just might find you don't have enough power to make it sound as crazy as it did at the store.
Finally, I'm all for sick excess. But the best way to achieve it is to continually look for ways to upgrade. If you start at the middle of a speaker line, look for the road upwards in quality in their lines.
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