Not in love with my system yet. Help!

 He could easily turn it off and that would be great but.....meanwhile no-one should feel sorry for him.
Perhaps you will ask him nicely to try to be nice to people for just one week and see how it goes? Please.

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Look it's easy.. MC, you got your ears on? Listen, could you be a little nicer to folks. You know, go out of your way NOT to be a fudge bucket.

In KIND, is not a fix all for everything... I'd have MC in a fox hole with me. 
I never met the man... OK maybe 45 years ago...:-) Count the ammo, and keep praying... I think a lot of our petty differences would get straighten right out... BIG OL SMILE... What you want to bet ???

How do you START or STOP a war without MECHANICS?  

You CAN'T...

NOW do you see how easy it is... He probably WON'T respond in KIND for a couple of weeks... He'll just post like he usually does.. WATCH and see. NO magic.... Just being a friend.. 

THE BIGGER question is, can some of the others do the same?
I know they can.  I want their input, not output, if you get my drift.
I know there are some sharp cookies out there...THAT is what I want...
I know, want with one hand, and shi$ in the other...

Being a gentleman, is hard... I try ALL the time.. sometimes I actually do it.. My FIL would be proud... One of the greatest people that  ever lived...

Happy new year, to ALL. 

With great respect, and much regard... Scotty, YES that is my name...
Just like on the Enterprise..

@larry5729 No, the integrated has nothing to do with the HT side of things but I must run my receiver through it for my mains to get signal as they are still deployed while watching the tube or movies. The integrated has HT bypass which is confusing to me because that's what you are in while using HT. The remaining inputs for the Parasound integrated are for when in 2 channel and nothing is coming from the receiver at all. 

@oldhvymec1 Love your point of view and this was well said. I gather from your handle you were maybe in mechanized infantry? Happy New Year right back at you. I have my doubts but hoping 2021 will be better than this has been.

@dadork and oldhvymec

I felt like giving MC every benefit of the doubt until he posted the insult below about Almarg's system, even including a link to Al's virtual system to drive home the insult. For reference, I always thought/think of Al as the nicest, most helpful and knowledgeable person ever on A'gon.

millercarbon OP7,126 posts07-04-2020 10:11pm

The “genius” who lists “stock cables” on his profile Audiogon Systems. That says it all.

No way.
Yes way! https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/3676                  Not only freebie rubber power cords, but lamp cord to the speakers. Nothing to do now but apologize. Sorry, almarg. I had no idea. Sorry.

A portion of Al's response is as follows:

Subsequent responses insulting my system constitute "argumentum ad hominem." As stated in that Wikipedia writeup:

From my viewpoint MC feels free to spew his waste output on anybody at will, as evidenced by many of his 7,100 posts in two years. But he did teach me one thing, I didn't know Albert Einstein was an X-ray technician, no wonder he is so famous. I would feel no greater honor for 2021 than to be placed as number 19 on the hateful 18 list.

From my viewpoint MC feels free to spew his waste output on anybody at will, as evidenced by many of his 7,100 posts in two years. But he did teach me one thing, I didn’t know Albert Einstein was an X-ray technician, no wonder he is so famous. I would feel no greater honor for 2021 than to be placed as number 19 on the hateful 18 list.

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LOL I’m still laughing. With a base of 18, 19 is hard to get to...You did something quit extraordinary.. LOL I’m about to piss myself..

I guess I have the unique ability to read past the SHI$. Oh man..

I have just worked around all kinds of folks, MC just seems like a normal Joe to me.. He dose have his moments though.. The "Chile cook off" was pretty good too.. LOL

I have a short memory.... for the most part... Unless it’s malicious, I mean with INTENT. It’s just a lack of empathy.. BUT I assure you it’s all BS.

Here you go, I was scared to DEATH. I had to have an injection into my thyroid, and stents put in my heart. I wasn’t the mechanic all of the sudden.. I was dying.. I’d had 15 heart attacks and if they couldn’t get my thyroid calmed down, HUGE SURGERY...

MC cool as a cucumber, said. "Don’t worry buddy, your gonna be alright".

I didn’t know him from ADAM.. Yea he says CRAP.. Forget about it..

Almarg would not have carried a grudge.. NOR DOSE HE.

The spirit of Almarg is the spirit of Audiofiling...Ay? Share, have no regrets..

89 days in a 4’ x 4’ cage. Your not gonna teach me much about myself, I don’t already know... Cockroaches and rice are good... So are a lot of people... Never met a person I didn’t like... To one degree or another..
Somebody had to give me that bowl of rice, cockroaches, in all. I prayed every day, he'd come back, and he did, cockroaches in al... There is good EVEN in BAD... Pepper helps too..

Happy new year..

@dadork 

I don't have your exact setup, but I have had combo HT/2-channel systems set up in the past. I used an HT receiver for video switching, HT source processing, etc., and had my surround and center speakers powered by the HT receiver. This was connected to my 2-channel system via L&R pre-outs, into my integrated amp, which powered the front L&R speakers via an HT bypass on the integrated amp. Sound like exactly what you have.

Just remember, your 2-channel rig is completely independent of your HT system. The HT system does not even need to be turned on to enjoy 2-channel music played via your BlueSound Node 2 (or any other source connected directly yo your integrated amp). Get the 2-channel sound/config optimized first if 2-channel sound quality is a priority.

Once you have the 2-channel rig optimized, all you need to do is connect the 2 LFE pre-outs from the HT receiver into the each of the two Subs. Per REL, you can have LFE and either the lower level RCA input, or the Neutrik connection working at the same time. After you have everything connected, run the receiver's setup routine. It will know that you have the subs connected via the LFE ports. And it should see your L&R mains as "large" since they have the subs connected to fill in the bottom end, essentially making them "large" full range speakers. And if necessary, set the L&R speakers to large in your setup.

Lastly, remember, if you have the subs connected to the integrated amp per the Neutrik connections, as per RELS recommendation you should have good full range sound when playing only 2-channel audio (independent of the HT receiver). And when playing HT, you should have full range sound from the front L&R speakers (same as when playing 2-channel only) and you should also get the LFE effects coded to go to the LFE output of the HT receiver via it's digital audio processing.

It should all work just fine, after you get it set up correctly.