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Your Denon 4802 has more than enough power to drive the M60s at ear splitting levels. If you still need monoblocks, Parasound and Odyssey make highly regarded and very expensive monoblocks. The Outlaw M2200s are far far cheaper, but still considered very good. If you are on a budget, consider the pro-amps discussed here: :-)

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I agree Richie, that was my points earlier in the thread, just use the AVR you have for both, heck your driving 4 80's with your Denon...

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Your Denon 4802 has more than enough power to drive the M60s at ear splitting levels.

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Ya know I have read that so many times and beleive me it's not always true. One persons loud may not be the same as others.

I know of a guy that was running a Rotel 100 watt receiver with some M60s. He kept blowing the tweeters out pushing the amp so hard it was going into clipping. The end result was he got rid of the M60s went with the M80s powered by a Rotel RB 1080. With that combo he has yet to run into trouble when playing his music to what he considers loud. He has had this system up and running for right around a year now.

Yes Rick, but I understand that he now listens with split ears.

and a Whisper 2000 Hearing Aid.... aaaaah haaaaa.

Could be John but the last time I spoke with him he was totally content with the system. Before the switch he had told me he was just about ready to scratch the whole stereo system. At least now he has a system he can use at the levels he wants without fear of the thing breakin down.

The denon IS plenty powerful enough. The thing is i'm a 85% music 15% movies/tv person. My Daughter and my girlfriend are 98% movies/tv and 2% music.

The "music" system will be mid-high end, and volume won't matter nearly as much as resolution. (not sure if that's the right word). Anyways, I'm pretty new to this, so there will be alot of research and hopefully auditions (hard to get where I live) before I make any purchases.

So just to clarify, this will be a totally separate (no pun intended) system from my current setup. Does anyone else have a music only setup to go with their HT?

I highly recommend checking out Odyssey. Give Klaus a call (he's not really big on emails). He may even have some "b" stock that you could get for real cheap. Regardless, he makes some really nice amps, and charges a very fair price for them.

I will echo Spiff's comments. I have an Odyssey Khartago amp and absolutely love it. Klaus is very fair and won't try to sell you anything you don't need.

Other than OUTLAW, is there a similar company you can recommend for price-performace value?

Also, I have this question. I want to control the volumes individually and swiftly by sliding potentiometers for 10 speakers + 1 subwoofer. I would maybe use a Mackie 16-channel mixer for this.

QUESTION: Where would I interface the mixer for individual speaker volume controls? In-between the incoming audio signal and the preamp/processor? Or in-between the pre/amp processor and the power amplifiers?

Connections would be via XLR-IN and XLR-OUT.

Thanks!