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The two rooms are completely separate. No point messing up the music room by putting a TV in it.

Den is multichannel 7.0 HT. Living room, home office, work office (headphones), and three bedrooms are all two-channnel. Car (Acura TL) is multichannel 5.1 audio.

Yes, it's set up for audio, but there happens to be a TV between the front set of speakers. I set up for audio and then let the home theater sound land where it lands.

One room only is dedicated to audio-video. Nice.

I am fortunate enough to have separate music and HT system/rooms.

I do have my stereo hooked up to my TV. However, my system is strictly stereo (two-channel). My stereo system sounds better than the vast majority of multi-channel systems I have heard. Not just better for music; better for TV and movies too.

I listen to music; not to noise. The two are not interchangable.

My HT system is great for explosions, helicopters flying over, and Godzilla roaring, but for music I still prefer my separate two-channel system, with its welcoming, warm tubed sound.

The largest room (@5850 cu ft) in my home is where my main two-channel music system holds place of purpose. On an opposite wall, usually behind closed cabinets, there is a TV which has not become and is not likely to become a pop culture shrine (home theater), ever. TV can never be transcendent. Music can.

I am working on creating a separate "listening" area that will involve more music and less children.

I am fortunate enough to have a dedicated sound room as well as a separate dedicated theater.

Yes, since 1986.

Main listening room has NO TV...that's why it's called a listening room and not a watching room. If a TV were to be snuck in there, I'd have to kill it. Just say NO to TV.

Over the last six months I have purchased a Rotel A/V receiver, DVD player, and wire to set up a 5.1 system in my listening room. The system is not connected and just this weekend I plugged in the receiver and DVD Player

I don't have enough large rooms to separate the two, so my HT is also my multichannel music and "stereo" system. It's expensive to limit the compromises, but I rationalize that the system gets a lot more use since it serves up music, movies, and TV. Yeah, that's it.

I have got two windows on the rear side and my TV is in the corner.

High-end stereo sound and a 1080 resolution front projector. Screensize 80". No surround speakers, center, or subwoofer. Separate preamplifiers for dedicated music or movies. I use balanced inputs for music, single ended for movies on my monoblocks.

The music/home theater system is in our rec room, which is where we spend most of our waking hours and do most of the entertaining. That system has to do everything well. Naturally, I've had to construct a second stereo-only system for when the significant other wants to watch some soap-opera type series on the (only) TV...

My 2two-channel rig is in the living room with no TV. Home theater, if and when I ever have enough spare cash, will go in the basement, which is much better suited to that type of activity.

Of course I don't waste my money on surround sound. If the picture and sound isn't coming from the same place, it's stupid. It distracts from the movie and you're now listening to the cheesey effects. As far as surround sound for music, why? This industry needs to grow up! It's all about sounding real.

Sonically, the screen is not there when listening to music! (ie it's covered with sound foam)

The music listening room seems to be a private spot for me, while the home theater is a gathering place for the entire family.

Unless one lives alone, it is impossible to listen to music with only a home theater system if another member of the household wants to see TV or other video, which is usually every evening. I don't see how anyone who listens to music frequently could not have a separate music listening room, irrespective of the number of channels used.

Yes, but I wouldn't call it Home Theater... I just add a TV to my stereo setup, in order to watch DVDs.

Neither the TV nor the VCR is connected to the stereo system at all. I don't have time enough to listen to music, never mind waste it watching crappy American television or formulaic movies.

Nope, the A/V system isn't optimized for that kind of sound reproduction. I have another system in my bedroom that does a much better job with music sources rather than soundtracks and movies. Plus the electronics are better in my bedroom system.

I don't have enough money to do both, and I've discovered that two-channel does home theater very well indeed. Well enough to really impress my girlfriend.

I am not a home theater fan, at least not yet, so my basic 27" 20+ year old Magnavox is in a separate room from where I listen to my music.

unfortunately, my main listening room is also my home theater room, my living room, my kitchen, everything.

The TV is between the KEF floorstanders. I also hooked up a Klipsch 2.1 speaker/amp system designed for the ipod to the audio output on the TV set. I love to watch movies on DVD but I can't stand the thought of listening to them through my audio system so I use the Klipsch and it sounds really good. The sound is "tailored" so to speak for DVD movie audio. If I ever get a full blown surround system set-up then someone please come in and take me away to the funny farm! I can't stand the audio coming from behind where I sit when the picture is only in front of me.