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Hello and thanks for viewing. I am currently in the market for buying a lower-end model receiver for my living room HT. I decided to make the jump slowly to seperates and plan to buy a emo xpa-5 to power my m22's,qs8's and vp100; with the emergence of HDBaseT networking on the way (possibly), along with new features: DSX, dolby IIZ, HDMI 1.4, etc. I figured I'd chill before I make the jump to pre/pro. Any suggestions? Price limit right now is somewhere around 500 for the receiver or should I skip the amp and buy a decent quality receiver. upgrading from an old sony receiver thats pushing maybe 60w per channel. I auditioned a yammy rx-v1900 with my current setup and definitely heard a difference in sound from the speakers. Any suggestions is much appreciated.