Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater AV receivers/Amps confusion, please help.

My brain hurts.

And then from the West came the Outlaw ICBM, and there was much rejoicing. *Yay!! Yay!! Yay!!*

Yeah, mine was throbbing to. I had to take some Percodan.

Do you use the ICBM for DD/DTS as well as SACD/DVD-Audio?

It hooks up from the source> to the ICBM> to the receivers ext. inputs, right? What if you have a source component that can't set center and surround to the "large" setting.

>>But in the receiver settings,what do you do if you want to run the mains as large and still use the sub to fill in below what the mains are capable while not having the mains receive a full range signal (while playing back 2 channel CD)?

Get an HK receiver and set the mains crossover to a different (lower) frequency than the center and surrounds. I'm currently playing with mains set to LARGE, sub set to LFE + L/R, and mains x-over set to 40 hz. Sounds pretty good -- setting mains to SMALL is actually just fine for HT, maybe the best, but I still prefer to play music with the mains set to LARGE.

Yes I have mine set up as my universal bass management. (Between the pre-outs and pre-ins) I also made sure to set everything to large in the receiver and (I'll double check this one)in the universal player (Denon DVD-2200). Now if the source can't set the center and surrounds to "large" then there's not much you can do about that one other than upgrading.