pre-amp and amp for 1K

I think that in that price range you may be better off with a good used integrated amp with a HT bypass. I just recently posted a thread asking for the best used integrated for my B&W cdm1nt's (88db efficient compared with your Soliloquy's 90db rating) Most of the people seemed to be leaning towards the Classe, Electrocompaniet, Plinius (a little pricier), Krell 300i and I think a few others. I chickened out and ended up with a Bryston because I like the 20 year transferrable warranty and the fact that Bryston has a great reputation and is used in alot of major studios around the world. I am very happy with the Bryston B-60. For $825 delivered with 18 years warranty left to me it is a no brainer. It sounds better (to me) than the Denon avr5800 that I had originally listened to the CDMnt 7's with. You may also want to let people here know what kinds of music you listen to as some of the integrateds suggested to me seemed to be more commonly suggested to others for classical and jazz and others seemed to be recommended more for pop & rock. Anyhow, I'm just a beginner here but that's my 2 cents.
Happy listening
Ellery

Integration is fairly simple, some pre/int's have processors loops that make it a snap. If it doesn't have this loop, you can still do it with any unused output from the pre/int. In this case you have to fiddle with the volume a bit.

This assumes that your receiver has pre-outs.

KP

Interesting situation: I would definitely separate HT system from 2ch stereo:

Use for 2ch stereo your main Soliloquy 5.3.

Get for HT some cheap and descent monitors.

Try to mate used passive McCormack line drive($325) with used Bryston 3b-st($900).

If you cannot separate HT from music it'll still work with two sets of speaker wires running from your HT receiver and from your power amp. Make sure that receiver and amps are not on both at the same time.

With your budget your money would be beter spent on an high quality integrated piece such as a Classe CAP 100 or 150, This unit allows you to separate the amp/preamp sections for HT use. I'm not familiar with the Soliolquy but this particular piece is very musical and can deliver high current. I am sure that there are other integrateds out there that can do the same thing. I believe that they would be much better that the separates available at that price.

As mentioned above, it's relatively easy to do assuming you've got preouts for the main channels on the receiver and get a preamp or integrated amp with a processor loop. (However, I don't think that it's necessary -- or necessarily recomended? -- to run two seperate runs of speaker cables, from two seperate amps, into the same pair of speakers (forgive me if I misinterpreted)).

When set up, it will essentially be a 2 channel system with a parallel add-on for processing and 3 extra channels (or more, if you want) of amplification when doing HT. It's vaguely counter-intuitive at first, so forgive me if I am overly simplistic, but it works like this. The two-channel system is essentially stand-alone when in use: CD (or source of choice) to preamp to amp to mains, season to taste and go. Next to it, or at least next to it on my rack, is the DVD (runing digital into the processor section on the receiver) the reciever and, for good measure, a VCR. The amp section on the receiver powers the center and surrounds, while the mains run from the preouts on the receiver into the processor loop in on the preamp (which then sends the signal to the main amp and onto the speakers, of course). This way, the mains never see anything other than the tubed preamp and the Bryston and, when listening to music, the HT gear is turned off and minding its own business. As far as I am concerned, it's the best of both worlds -- you can have a reletively high end (as high-end as you want, really) two channel system mated with a relatively cheap HT receiver for all of the 5.1 channel whistles and bells without having to worry about trying to find a HT processor that can do both movies AND music well.

Down the road, you could even add on seperate amps for the surround and center channels (again, assuming that you've got preouts on the receiver for them). That said, if and when you get that far down the road, you'll likely be looking at ditching the reciever anyway and going full seperates for HT as well, which, for my money and usage, seems entirely unnecessary. But that's me.

Finally, if you're in the mood for consolidating even more,
if you've got a DVD player with both digital and analog outs (which you almost certainly do) you could run the digital into the reciever and the analog into the preamp CD input and have the DVD do double duty. I tried this just for fun and found that, for music, the onboard DAC on the DVD was far superior to the DAC on the reciever. (I run the DVD analog feed into the AUX input on the preamp). Sure, I prefer the CD player to the DVD, but what the hell, I had to try it....

As for recomendations (yea, I hadn't forgotten) I'd have to agree that you could probably find a nicer intergrated than seperates in your price range. There was a Classe CAP 101 posted just today for $1,195. I don't know integrateds well enough to offer any pointers (or even whether the Classe indeed has a processor loop) but, as with anything audio, would encourage you to try to listen to as much as you can first. The recomendations above are an eccellent start, and you can rest assured, as long as there's a processor loop, that it will mate with the HT gear. Focus on the music, and just pick the one you like the sound of most. Best of luck.