Just ordered the 533-VAC, 2x533-PT and 4x532-LR and here is the HT system waiting to use them.

wowzer, you have a TON of components in your setup, nice.

It is all the DVD players. My wife and I are big movie buffs. She ran AMC theaters for 10 years before becoming a programmer. That is how we got the one sheets hanging above the system. The three silver mega DVD changers are all controlled by the Escient media controller, top right unit on the shelf below the TV. The bottom silver units are the cable box and a single DVD player. The top two black units on the other rack are also mega DVD players. We had those before buying the Escient unit. They did not have RS232 ports, which is why we had to buy the silver DVD changes. We keep movies in the silver players and our collection of TV shows in the black units. The bottom black unit is a CD mega player. Across the top shelf on the TV stand is a PS2, Monster power conditioner, and the Escient unit. On the bottom shelf is a VHS, used to off load shows from the cable box as needed, battery backup for the TV and the Onkyo 830 AV receiver.

 The 830 was one of very few 7.1 AV receivers below $1,000 I found with 2 HDMI and 3 component video inputs. The silver units in the right rack use the component inputs (the mega DVDs via the Escient box) and the 2 black DVD players use the HDMI. Unfortunately, the 830 does not output the HDMI to the component out to the TV so I have to switch the TV to its HDMI input to watch one of our TV shows. The PS2 and VCR are directly connected to the TV via S video.

The 533 PTs arrive on Monday and the 532 surrounds on Tuesday. The 533 VAC is backordered until mid Feb.

my 533 PTs arrived last week, and the bi/di surrounds and center in the beginning of the month.. but all ive done is unpack them and drool without setting them up yet i also got the very popular denon 3805 reciever (for 700 bucks, incredible value), and the Pioneer Slimline DVD/SACD Player.. now im planning on getting the apple airport express

That apple airport express looks interesting. I'll have to look in to it some more. Thanks for mentioning it.  

So, how many movies do you own????

Around 460. I don't have the exact count since some movies are on multiple disks. It grows every month. One of the black mega players is almost full of TV shows.

 

I got the towers and surround speakers this week and I got the shipping notification of the center speaker last night. I will have everything connected by next weekend.

 

As for the speakers that did arrive, they are in perfect condition. The shipping boxes took a beating, as I would expect coming all the way from Portland. One of the bookshelf speakers had about a 6-inch pencil thin line of some sort of sticky substance running across the top. A small dab of Undo took it off. The metal spikes and pads in the bottom of one of the tower boxes came out of their plastic zip lock bag but they didn’t do any harm.

 

I'm using the airport express and it's very flexible, as long as you have your network port/modem close to your reciever. Also saves you buying mass access/storage for your CDs if you accept MP3 quality. Saves me running more (expensive) cable when I change my mind about where the next zone is going to be... I've engulfed enough dust to grow hydroponic chest hair.