Hegel H590 with BW 800D

Thank you for the responses.  It's helpful to get some additional perspectives.

In my research, I see a lot of posts about how these speakers play very well with various mono-block setups with 600+ Watts per channel (e.g., MC601/611 or Classe CA-M600, etc.)  Which made me wonder how much I would be "leaving on the table" by using an integrated like this (with "only" 300 Watts per channel.)

I haven't had the privilege of hearing these speakers with various different amps, so have no idea how much of a difference we're talking across different amps. 

Got it, thanks for the quick response!

Completely depends on what sound characteristics you’re looking for.  Without that info, this post is useless...

Sorry, not musically sophisticated enough to articulate sound characteristics.  I'm new to this, and appreciate it when music sounds nice/full--but I am not qualified to start parsing it with any further descriptors.

In the past, I had read about how the BW800D's "love power" to get the most out of them.  In the context of that type of a statement, I wasn't sure if something like the H590 would have sufficient "power" to meet that standard. 

A related question to the H590 -- I just realized that it doesn't have a headphone output.

Is there a clean way to utilize the DAC/pre-amp on the device with headphones?  My concern is that feeding the variable-output/fixed-line output from the H590 to an external headphone amp would leave the speakers in the H590 on.  Does anyone know if "muting" the H590 will leave the variable-output/fixed-line outputs active (there by allowing me to mute the speakers while still driving the headphone amp.).