Moving to separates

Well it took me a year to buy a separate amp, on account of I had to buy a new house first.  Built a home theater in the basement, with acoustics as a priority.

The amp is a VTV 7 channel class D with Hypex modules.  It is 700 W into 4 ohms for the front 3 channels, and 250 W for the 4 surround channels. As I was kind of expecting, it was not a huge notch up in sound quality improvement.  A notch to be sure, just not huge.  I guess the Integra's internal amps were getting the job done pretty well.  But if I ever decide to upgrade my Arendal 1723's to speakers that are hard to drive, I'll be ready.

I have no idea why you have so many speakers

@parkergetdean  It's 33% home theater use.  But even for music I like surround sound.  Occasionally I will switch to stereo but not for long because it loses that fullness and ambience that I've come to love.  And I have a lot of 5.1 music in my collection.  For stereo music, the upmixer in Kodi does a good job.