4corners, as Gonk said both D.Rowe and I are using a receiver as the amp for now.
Fortunatly my receiver has "main in" inputs along with a 6 channel input so I can skip the entire preamp stage in my receiver.

The main in's are the input part of the amp section so no extra volume knob or anything else.
This was part of my buying decision when I got the receiver as I expected new sound formats at some time in the future.

You might want read the thread gonk refered to for an easy way to set up your volumes to avoid some confusion.

Hope this helps

[This message has been edited by Qyv10 (edited November 20, 2003).]