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I suggest that this comes back to customer requirements and budget.

You are the customer and you set the budget and describe what you want to achieve. Your supplier has tendered what looks like a Rolls-Royce solution. I suggest you now engage with them to eliminate costs while minimising the impact on your desired outcome. For example, how many surround speakers and subs could be removed while still leaving a broad and deep frontal sound-stage to match the picture. How many people will typically occupy the room for viewings rather than design for the maximum, etc. All this is typical in my world of IT solution procurement and any commercially-minded supplier should jump at the chance to refine their pitch to get the sale. I'm afraid it won't happen in a satisfactory manner without that detailed engagement and refinement.

To my mind there is too much surround and sub in the proposed solution. I have no idea of the quality of the actual kit but, if I understand the Canadian$:� exhcange rate correctly, you could get a lot of very good Meridian DSPs for that money that would perform very well with the help of electronic room ccorrection.

I absolutely support the approach of getting the worst of the room fixed early. My under-construction "entertainment lounge" was designed with under-floor damping and relaid boards to eliminate springiness and echo, the curtain were selected for their sound-damping and light-blocking capabilities, the electrics were laid to be separate from the domestics and to provide multiple outlets on discrete labelled spurs in the right places. None of this was driven by anything other than just good basic perparation and a very understanding builder. Your supplier should do this stuff out of the box.