Integrated Amplifier

I use a Kinki EX M1 with my R900 speakers. Lovely. 

@maritime51 I just looked up the kinki because I hadn't heard of it.  Looks to be a very good amp!  I just wish it had an HT Bypass option. 

@pjpicket - You don't have to have an HT bypass, it's just a minor convenience. You can use any unused analog input, select that input and set the volume of the integrated amp to a pre-defined setting, something like top dead center, etc. Of course, you have to run the setup app on your HT receiver, with the integrated amp in the chain, in order to account for the difference in gain between your integrated and your HT receiver. You also have to run setup if your new integrated amp does have HT bypass.

BTW, I've run a combo 2-channel/HT system on several different system iterations and it worked just fine, with HT bypass, and without.

Given a choice, I would choose the extra (though minor) convenience of having an HT bypass/processor loop. But it's only a minor difference in the convenience. 

Anthem has an integrated that should drive the R700. Is there a reason you didn't want to stick with Anthem?