I read on another post that someone was able to use the 950 as the proccessor and use their current receiver as the amp. I have a 5 year old Sony receiver thats 100W channel x5 and rates at 4 ohm for front channel. If I can get going on having the 950 now...that would be great to get going until I save up the chang to get a 7100 to go with it. Thanks!