The good news is there's no need for you to switch the interconnects between receiver and stereo amp. All you need to do is hook the front L/R preamp outs from the receiver into an open input on your integrated amp and you're done (you just need to set a "reference" volume level on your integrated if you don't have an HT passthrough -- I used the half way mark on the volume control to make it easy -- so the volume level remains balanced). Best of both worlds without having to change interconnects. The receiver stays out of the system until you switch to HT and your 2-channel rig stays pure.
I'd recommend doing this in stages. Start with something like an Onkyo HT receiver. If you can spring for the 875 as it can upconvert and upscale all your video sources like TV, VCR, DVDs, etc., which is nice if you need it. If you don't care or don't need it buy one of the cheaper models with the features you need. The Oppo would be an excellent and cheap DVD player, but either LG or Samsung makes a Universal hi-def player so you don't have to worry about HD DVD vs. Blu ray.
I'd start with that and hold off on the center channel to see if a phantom center works for you. If you or others don't have to sit off to the side too much you may find this more than acceptable (I did, and by definition it's a perfect match for your L/R speakers). If not you can always add a center later, but with your L/R speakers I bet it would work pretty darn well without a center channel speaker since they're probably set up properly already with a solid center image of their own. Oh, and you'll save a good bit o' cash to boot.
For the rears anything from Athena, Axiom, Gallo, Paradigm, PSB, etc. should be fine at least to start.
A bonus is you can start playing around with surround recordings as well, which I find really fun even though I'm a 2-channel guy myself.
Best of luck.
I'd recommend doing this in stages. Start with something like an Onkyo HT receiver. If you can spring for the 875 as it can upconvert and upscale all your video sources like TV, VCR, DVDs, etc., which is nice if you need it. If you don't care or don't need it buy one of the cheaper models with the features you need. The Oppo would be an excellent and cheap DVD player, but either LG or Samsung makes a Universal hi-def player so you don't have to worry about HD DVD vs. Blu ray.
I'd start with that and hold off on the center channel to see if a phantom center works for you. If you or others don't have to sit off to the side too much you may find this more than acceptable (I did, and by definition it's a perfect match for your L/R speakers). If not you can always add a center later, but with your L/R speakers I bet it would work pretty darn well without a center channel speaker since they're probably set up properly already with a solid center image of their own. Oh, and you'll save a good bit o' cash to boot.
For the rears anything from Athena, Axiom, Gallo, Paradigm, PSB, etc. should be fine at least to start.
A bonus is you can start playing around with surround recordings as well, which I find really fun even though I'm a 2-channel guy myself.
Best of luck.