Looking for a new home entertainment system? Here are five tips for choosing the best model for your home environment.

1. Choose a system that can be expanded. Most of your music collection may be on CDs, but with the growing popularity of DVD audio you don’t want to be left behind. Even if you are only interested in stereo sound make sure you buy a system that can be adapted to new technologies. This includes video as well as audio mediums. Buy a stereo system for now, but make sure it has surround sound capabilities.

Design: With Sony's standard piano black color scheme with silver envelope for the speakers and subwoofer, and a swath of blue for the AV receiver, which sees Sony HT-SS2300 Component Home Theater System both simple and elegant. During this 5.1-channel system works with other brands, it was originally made to complement Sony's products, and as such it was the Sony Bravia HDTV Series and the Sony Blu-ray disc fitPlayer. Consisting of the AV receiver a big subwoofer and four smaller satellite speakers of the system is very easy to set up and operate, thanks to the informative text-based interface. Since the entire ensemble is not too much space, it's ideal sound-proofed for small apartments, but is just as capable in a much larger scale.