I was adding things up in my head. I thought about TV's and amps I'd like and it was easy to blow the 5k budget just on those.
Seems like you might want to consider giving your speakers (at least the front three) some serious power in a 3 channel amp.
Keep your Onkyo gear for now and let it run the amps and power your surrounds. It also may have a built in phono stage too.
If the onkyo has phono stage, use it and spend as much as you can on the table, couple that to a decent cartridge. My experience is it all starts at the table first. Get that as right as you can afford first. As a side note, a table also may make quite a showpiece in your room.
Then you still have to afford a Video Monitor (TV) and a system controller to make life easy for everyone.
All of these thing could eat up your budget easy. Only you will know what's important to you. That's why I might just use the Onkyo for a processor still as you can always change it out later. It gives you more money to work with to get better gear that you need now.
If you really need more modern processing, take a look at Yamaha's RX-v2700. 140 watts to power the surrounds, video processing and up-conversion for all video sources to HDMI (that new T.V. will love having it), phono stage built in and stellar H/T processing. It's a great unit and will be value packed as a hub. I actually have one and i sounds amazing.
Seems like you might want to consider giving your speakers (at least the front three) some serious power in a 3 channel amp.
Keep your Onkyo gear for now and let it run the amps and power your surrounds. It also may have a built in phono stage too.
If the onkyo has phono stage, use it and spend as much as you can on the table, couple that to a decent cartridge. My experience is it all starts at the table first. Get that as right as you can afford first. As a side note, a table also may make quite a showpiece in your room.
Then you still have to afford a Video Monitor (TV) and a system controller to make life easy for everyone.
All of these thing could eat up your budget easy. Only you will know what's important to you. That's why I might just use the Onkyo for a processor still as you can always change it out later. It gives you more money to work with to get better gear that you need now.
If you really need more modern processing, take a look at Yamaha's RX-v2700. 140 watts to power the surrounds, video processing and up-conversion for all video sources to HDMI (that new T.V. will love having it), phono stage built in and stellar H/T processing. It's a great unit and will be value packed as a hub. I actually have one and i sounds amazing.