[cjd]

I have no idea if all your requirements would be met, but I've been really happy with all the stuff I have from Emotiva. Give them a look.


Onkyo is fine with a 4ohm load, but unless they've fixed things, their HDMI connections can be finicky.



I don't think you'll be able to decode ANY of the fancy movie sound layers without a receiver that can handle them on the assumption you have a 5.1 or 7.1 or something fancy - though you can often downmix to stereo.


I stream FLAC via a squeezecenter server and various devices... including raspberry pi's set up as receivers (add a halfway decent DAC for useful results, or use HDMI). Trying to find one thing that does it all is never useful in my experience. It forces you to change everything if any one piece of the puzzle needs to be changed.