Came across this unit 2nd hand, worth looking at?

NAD T754

ps: I am not the seller lah.. but I am using an NAD T763, so far so good. Still think with proper speakers, NAD sounds better for music and movie combined.

It has no latest thingy like HDDts or True HD sound, but the audio output can be link into this amp for proper amplification. For your budget, its not easy to get full technology advantage with good hifi sounds. So compromise has to be made I think. And I still think sound quality comes first.