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Good power ratio HT: fronts, rears, center, sub

I am looking to upgrade my HT. I have fallen in love with the McIntosh LS360 speakers with a 602 McIntosh amp.

However, the rest of my setup would be as follows:

An Adcom 7500 amp powering @ 150 watts per channel for the center channel and 4 rears and A boston acoustic sub @ 300 watts.

So would 600 x 2 stereo speakers be a bad idea when adding to only 150 watts per channels on the other 5 speakers?

I have a Rotel RSP-1066 Preamp that is capable of 7.1, but I am guessing it won't be able to properly balance the power differences since it won't know how much power each speaker is getting.

There much be some rule of thumb for 7.1 power ratios to each speaker...Help?!?!
jwbond

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saki70
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Are you aware that the 1066 , which I have , allows you to manually adjust the sound level to each speaker in the surround mode ? This should take care of any differences in amplification used , as far as sound level .

I agree that the speaker and amp , for the center channel , should be from the same manufacturer as the front left and right if at all possible . Some times you can get lucky though and find others that will match up rather well .

Good luck .
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