Thanks Trevor. Appreciate your input.

I'm leaning towards moving to separates this time. I had a preference to go with a mainstream AVR, due to HDMI glitches and the larger company's ability to sort them out, but now - It seems as though many companies are making excellent pre-pro's with all the bells and whistles the AVRs have.

I've always like NAD. I'll give them a look and see what they offer.

I was looking at Axiom's 3 channel amps. Looks like I would need to go with the 1250 to get balanced inputs. Seems odd they are not included on all the amps? The 1000 series would be more than enough to drive my M80's and VP 160.