Advice on purchasing a Home Theater please

Hi all

Im after some advice on home theatre

With the amount of movies and TV I watch I would definitely enjoy better sound quality

Having visited the usual electronic stores I've noticed they mostly stock the TV brand all in one home theatre systems. But I'm also aware I could compile one myself from the various components.

My budget is over $1500 but under $2000

My viewing room measures 3.6 m wide and 2.8 m from the TV to where I sit on the couch

I normally watch media through netflix, or chrome cast from my computer and also game on the ps4 which doubles as the blu ray player, so I would like 3 HDMi inputs if possible

My preference is for smaller but decent quality speakers…hopefully. I don't really have the space for tower types (and the budget wouldn't allow anyway)

I have some space under my TV for a centre speaker and the 2 side speakers. The rear speakers would hopefully be on stands behind the couch. A worry I have is the speakers have the cloth grill, and the cat using them as a scratching post, considering they would be the perfect height. the cat hasn't scratched any existing speakers with cloth covers yet, but I'm always worried,

I normally use spotify etc off my phone for music through the chrome cast, so i don't need a receiver that has spotify built in. Ive read that some of them do, but I'm unsure how it works exactly… same goes for bluetooth, I don't think it will have the range to benefit me.

Update: having done some more research, I'm thinking about getting a set of Orb Audio Satellite speakers and purchasing the Receiver and subwoofer seperate (speakers would be just shy of 1k)

Does anybody have any recommendations for a good bang for your buck and reliable receiver? good brands?

Any ideas on a subwoofer?

Or maybe somebody can recommend a good HTIB?

Or anything else I need to be aware of?

Thanks in advance