Just thinking about what would be a suitable upgrade?

The PS audio amps are quite safe and resevred my suggestion would be to try audition some quality used daul mono stereo amplifiers.
Oli's suggestion is as valid as everyone else's although I would see if you secure a loan of one before comitting to having anything built imho

The usual bugbear when wishing to move on custom units is the resale value and the appeal to the mass audiophile market.

I would also wait until the new speakers have fully settled in before making any more changes, itchy feet cost money and having to take a an unavoidable haircut due to impatience is best left for naimies

If memory serves me right, Amphion are usually demonstrated at shows with Hegel integrateds like the 590 and there is ofcourse the new H600.
However as Mr_C has said, wait until your 7s arrive and are fully bedded in before doing anything. The old adage of act in haste, repent at leisure, definitely holds true here.

Oh, I agree a trial would be beneficial......which is why I offered one 😂

It would be fascinating to compare the valve class d m1200 with the m700 class d

Huge fan of icepower so for that reason i would stick wuth ps audio

Just to be clear, I am JUST thinking ahead, as one does. Have read so much good things with regards Hegel amps, the only thing that puts me off slightly is the lack of an i2S HDMI connection, as I just recently purchased a Matrix Audio SPDIF, and it made a massive improvement. It would mean trading in my Matrix audio box, SGCD and the 2 M700's. Maybe as HiFinutt has mentioned, stay with PS and audition the M1200's
I will of course not be considering a change until the new speakers have had the chance to be run in and listened to.
This post is just me wondering on a Boring Sunday morning

Is it just the i2S that has made the improvement, have you compared to the coax output?

I have all my music on a Pentium i5 SSD on my PC, and no other gear, (apart from the Sony PX BP800 just used as a SACD player and Netflix etc and a MD). The PC only has USB outs, no other digital connection The i2S made  a huge difference (for my ears), was a night and day thing, especially my DSD rips that a good friend did for me

in a word, no, just used a HDMI from the Matrix to the PS SGCD. will have a look to see what connections are on the Matrix, as have a suitable cable here I think, and can then A/B them

Am a great fan of PS gear, and got that mainly from all the marketing they do. obviously they make good gear, and even tho I quite fancy a change in brands, its a big step. Obviously when the time comes, I will seek advice from a few dealers, and home demo

the great thing about the psaudio units is they are icepower class d . Bel canto changed from icepower sadly to hypex class D . As you may know i am a huge fan of bel canto but not that decision !!!

comments like this are very common 

As I mentioned in another recent thread on class D amps, my experience with Hypex based class D amps is that, whilst they might be relatively inexpensive, they are not very reliable. I have used five Hypex based mono block amps over the last few years and all of them have suffered from power supply failures. They were all fixed by having the PSU boards replaced. I have since sold two of them and, out the remaining three, one suffered a repeat of the same PSU failure, another just stopped working and only the third is still working correctly. The two I sold, I believe, are still working.

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to my mind the m1200 is best upgrade