Need Some Expert advice


I have collected some high end audio equipment for several months and have not had a chance to hook everything up as I had to design and make a custom cabinet. The cabinet is completed and the audio equipment is unboxed.

I am now trying to figure out the best way to connect everything. I am trying to get the best of both worlds buy using a outlaw 990 for home theater and a modwright 9.0 for tube audio for two channel music. I also have a seperate tube amp that can power 4,8,0 ohms and a California audio labs CD player with an alpha box and a DIP switch. I will be powering the Outlaw 990 with a 500x5 channel California Audio Labs Soild State Amp CL-2500. And the Outlaw will connect to a Classe CD/DVD-1 player.

I want to connect the CL-2500 to the Outlaw for rear and center channels. I will also be connecting the sub directly to the Outlaw990. I also want to hook the Classe CD/DVD to the outlaw. I want to run the Modwright 9.0 through the Outlaw 990 so when listening to 2 channel audio it will use the Modwright 9.0. I also want to connect the California Audio Labs CD player, alpha, and the DIP to the Modwright 9.0 Finally I want to run the front channels either through two mono 200watt solid state amps or a tube amplifier depending on the 2 channel sound I want to achieve.

I also am running B&W 800 series speakers all around. I also want the Sub which is a Paridigm PS-1000 to work when listening to two channel music. I was told there is a setting on the 990 to accomlish this. By setting the front speakers to Large?

I am trying to figure the best configuration for this set up and the proper cables to use. Can anyone help me on this?

Thanks
briansteenhoek

Showing 1 response by sogood51

I'm not big on mixing tube amps with solid state for home theater (mostly, because I've been there and done that).

If you must:

Most people would set this system up in a home theater pass through configuration... Modwright connected to the tube amps, Outlaw prepro R/L preamp outputs connected to the Modwright home theater pass through input. Of course the other Outlaw preamp outputs (C/RR/LR) would connect to the Cal amp.

In this type of configuration the Modwright will only be used for two channel playback, the Outlaws home theater signal output, will simply pass through the Modwright un-effected when watching movies.

Your cd player would be connected to the Modwright, your dvd player to the Outlaw unit. Where you connect any other source will be a matter of choice.

The subwoofer will need to stay with the Outlaw (won't work for two channel) if you want LFE's for movies.... unless it has two inputs, one for LFE's, and one for two channel (some subs do have this).

There are other options I did not mention, because most people would use the one I did mention.

Dave