Automatic room confusion

Time for some gadget talk!
Something I look forward to a lot when the remodelling of the apartment is finished, is to buy new audio & video equipment to replace the stuff I've sold! Meanwhile, I'm trying to figure out what to get...

An essential part of any home is of course the surround sound system, and for once the WAF was actually helpful, in that it severely limited the alternative models of speakers to choose from. Though I do want quality sound, I'm not at all interested in seeing the sound, so going for a speaker system from Bose seemed in the end like the obvious choice.

Initially I thought Bose was all about integrated solutions where you had to buy the speakers with the receiver and a (superfluous) DVD player included. Which is dumb of course when you have already found (or bought) the receiver you really want, and in my case will buy a Blu-ray player instead of a DVD player.
Fortunately they do indeed sell pure speaker systems - like the Acoustimass 10 Home Entertainment Speaker System. These neat little satellite speakers were easily accepted by Wife, and a listening test was very convincing. (Now, if only I manage to place the hideous subwoofer where it won't be too visible... Why does it have to look like a big old computer tower??)

One thing about Bose was worrying me though: I had heard about their AdaptIQ room correction system - would the speakers really play along fine with any "normal" surround receiver using the automatic room correction of the receiver??
Fortunately a very helpful salesman at Soundgarden could verify that there was no need for concern. AdaptIQ was only used in their Lifestyle system, and the Acoustimass would work exactly as I had hoped - he promised! Furthermore it would be an excellent match to the receiver model I want, he said.

So what receiver am I secretely not mentioning here??
This too was a difficult choice, but I've eventually settled for Onkyo TX-SR606. With honorable mention to Yamaha RX-V663 and Harman Kardon AVR 255.
All of them get great reviews, but in the end it was the 4 HDMI inputs of the Onkyo that won me over. Quite a beauty from behind, isn't it?? ;-)