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Next time your in town, PLEASE PLEASE come by and help me tweak my system and drink some beer.

You got it .

Hey Ken, I'll do my best to explain this. I have an NAD T762 which has 7.1 pre-out and 7.1 main-in. They use jumpers to bridge to the channels together. I'm not too sure why they used this design (maybe for those that just want to use the amp section), but it's perfect for the ICBM. It's more like using the ICBM with seperates and it allows you to use the ICBM with all different sources. In my case that's my cd player (NAD C541), universal (Denon 2200), PC, TV, and, iPod.

Right, I have (had?) a Toshiba reciever (ancient) that had a setup like that. I ust figured that my h/k didn't have that, but perhaps someone figured out how to work miracles or something.

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But what about equalizers? Surely you'd want to do that after processing...

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Hmmm...the way my Marantz receiver works is that it only recognizes the pre-ins in what it calls "direct mode", i.e. I don't have the option of applying any processing at all. What I hear is whatever the Pioneer sends it. But at the risk of sounding like an officious snob, I'm not sure I'd want to apply any ambient presets, anyway. If, however, by "equalization" you mean compensating for things like distance, the Pioneer universal player handles that. Mark (mhorgel) explained the setup pretty well to me in this thread. Maybe that will help.

Oh I agree with you. I'm just academically curious.

Brady,

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bray, there's a much easier way to fix this (assuming your SACD player has separate stereo outs.

I connected my SACD player to my receiver twice. I plugged the 6 cables (for 5.1) from the SACD player into my receiver's multi-channel input. I also plugged the SACD player's stereo-outputs into my receiver's AUX-in.

Now when I want to listen to a stereo SACD, I choose the AUX input. This carries the whole signal and my receiver does the bass management on it. When I want to listen to surround, I select the multi-channel input.

Brady, as was said, there's no digital output available of SACD material, in order to prevent the making of perfect digital copies(which terrifies the industry). So, no, you haven't missed any setting so far as trying to get a digital output.

As far as bass management of two-channel SACD material, the manual for your player appears not to be available online but it may have the answer buried somewhere within it. If the player doesn't have a provision for sending the bass from the two-channel SACD tracks to the sub(some do),then Peter's suggestion may work. If your player has a stereo output(other than the six analog outputs for SACD)which also outputs the front two channels from the SACD then you can connect that to the regular CD inputs or other unused inputs of the receiver. Study the manual somemore and if it makes no sense just try the separate connection to see if it works.

Thanks for those suggestions, they reflect what I came up with before I went to bed. The player dose have seperate stereo outs (2 channel).
My only concern is that it will be hoooked to my H/K 3 different ways
( 6 channel for sacds, digital coax in DVD "mode", stereo out for 2 channel sacds). The player has worked fine with the 2 different connections, but will it be ok with 3 ???