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Am i going to blow everything up..... ?

Hi There

I currently have a ROTEL surround processor with a ROTEL 5 chanel 120w amp for home theatre fun. These are driving JMLab Colbalt series speakers.
These sound great but I want to add a 2 Chanel Valve Amp to my system to listen to audio / CD / turntable (when i get one..). I am considering the Shanling SP80C monoblocks.

SO my questions are:

Can i hook up the Valve Amp to my ROTEL processor as Zone 2 so that i can control everything from one location.

Can i hook up a turntable to my ROTEL processor, there is no phono in, but i presume i can use a preamp and use the tuner or tape inputs.

Will the JMlab Colbalt 815's sound good with a valve amp (2*45w) class A/B

and the big questions: Can i continue to use my JMLab front speakers with 2 amps plugged into them ie the valve amp and the surround Amp, or do i need to keep switching the cables, or is there some other trick (a filter or something). I am not sure if i will damage something by having on amp off and the other playing, or the risk of having both amps on at the same time (but one with no signal)

Thanks for any help you can give me

Cheers

Tony
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sogood51
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At 8 ohms and 91db the 50 watt Shanling monos should work well. The Shanling has it's own high quality volume control so you may want to think about a high quality switcher with three or more inputs? One for the the Rotels L+R pre-outs and another two for cd and phono pre-amp. This way you could bypass the Rotel and use the Shanling volume control for two-channel cd and vinyl play back.

Don't worry about the Shanling sounding different from the Rotel amps for Hometheater...It will still be just as fun IMO.

Dave
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