May always marks the Electronic House annual Home of the Year Awards unveiling. But before we get to that next week, we wanted to give you a look back at some of our favorites from last year, so we’re rounding them up for the end of April.

Today we’re taking a look at the Best Home Theaters in the $25,000 to $50,000 category. This is where we start to see some step up into the designs, acoustical treatments, higher-performance products and other details.

We’re also including some runners-up, because we could only award three theaters but plenty of others deserve recognition.

Click here to view the Best Home Theaters $25,000 to $50,000 from Home of the Year 2009. Slides also contain links back to the original story posting, in case you missed it the first time around.

See also: Best Home Theaters $25,000 and Under

Arlen Schweiger - Editor of Electronic House Magazine

Arlen writes about home technology installations and product news and reviews for electronichouse.com and Electronic House magazine.