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OK, you got a Lyngdorf processor and PS Audio amps, the toobs are high maintenance and nickel and diming you on replacements.

Lyngdorf amps are of the two channel variety (SDA-2400) and at $2400 that works out to $1200 a channel. Your atmos rig has 11 channels so is it worth $1200 x 11 channels= $13,000+ to add 6 of those amps to your stack and hit the bid on the toobs?

If you miss your toobs get a tube based headphone amp. This one has a preamp out so you could use it as a 2 ch preamp as well.

You could hook the RCA out from the Manley to the RCA in of the SDA 2400 and the XLR out of your processor to the XLR in of the SDA 2400. You can switch between the inputs on the back and that amp would be driving your Paradigm 9H's.

@kota1 I've got the worlds most analytical headphone setup, the Focal Stella closed headphones and a Naim Unity HP headphone amp, both components are razor sharp and not very fun to listen to, accurate ya probably very much, I got that for working on video editing when you rally have to get the tiny details. Tube amps for the headphones would be great, I met Mr. Manley once he was very nice and very proud of his tubes and the way they sounded. 

I now I want to be active on my new system but I can't find a company that is totally system oriented other than Steinway and just 2 channels are $166K, and they don't even make surround speakers and I can't integrate the Steinway system into anything the connections are completely proprietary using cat 5 cable. I do want to put my money where I feel that the science and common sense leads but there are no alternatives. Sad.

I can't find a company that is totally system oriented other than Steinway 

Have you ever auditioned a system by Meridian?

I do want to put my money where I feel that the science and common sense leads 

Example of a common sense room, based on Meridian tech:

@donavabdear , the Lyngdorf Class-D is either off the shelf Purifi or customized. The brains is Bruno and Lara who started Purifi with Peter.  Those are Peter's words by the way.  Class D is almost a technical necessity for the bass due to high power in active, but for mid / tweet, not essential though a switching power supply becomes a packaging requirement. In professional products no one asks you what's the power supply. They only care about the sound. In the home market there are a lot of preconceived notions. There are also a lot more single ended electrical connections more susceptible to noise. 

That Meridien system was nice. Not a fan of the room and lack of treatment but they have to work with what the customer allows. They dropped the ceiling though, so could have created a 6" fake acoustic wall. All digital interconnect. Just standard Cat6.

@thespeakerdude 

I found the most amazing active speaker setup for you. It is SOA and probably the leading company in the entire category of active speakers. If you need help picking the right one start a new thread. If you want to do an atmos system wait until March when their new models are announced. 

Please click HERE and post any questions in a new thread. You will LOVE it!