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A cunundrum of sorts... any ideas?

I have Tannoy HPD 385's (15") and I am building our forever home, and would like to utilize them in a 5.1 home theatre set-up BUT I want to use them, and only them through my Analog set-up, which will be either a Bryston 4B or a Quad both vintage through my Macintosh MX-117 vintage Pre-amp tuner.
I would like to have rear speakers and a centre speaker through a 5.1 system that has a really good DAC so I can send my signal to the Bryston or Quad, or utilize my existing DAC.
I don't want to have to spend 4 grand on new 9.1 system just to get a good centre speaker and rear speakers.
I would like to find a great older hi end 5.1 system to power the center and rears and yet be able to use my existing analog stuff so I can still play music through the Tannoys when i feel like it.
Any ideas?

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islandmandan
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I bought a used Arcam AV 9 pre-pro that I use for multi-channel and home theater, and I have a nice Herron two channel line stage that I use for analog and two channel digital. It all works great together for me and sounds fine too.

I've been using my system this way for many years in this configuration, but these are the best components I've used in this configuration, and I couldn't be happier.

Best of luck, Happy Thanksgiving,

Dan

 

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holmz
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Having just gone through this, and still going through it…

Ran an AVP (which is an AVR without the amps)… so it has either XLR or RCA outputs.

  • The rears and center channels go to some small AIYAMA amps and the speakers.
  • The front channels into the traditional preamp—>amp—>speakers

You probably need RCAs to go into an Aux input on the analogue side.
Then you pretty much need to fix the volume pretty high so that the AVR/AVP is controlling it. (And not forget to turn it down when switching sources.)

If the AVR you are looking at does not have RCA outputs for the LF/RF, then you cannot get the signal to the analogue side. Assuming it is RCAs?

So if it is an AVR then you need at least the front two channel in RCA/XLR.
XLRs can work with an XLR—>RCA adapter like ones from Nuetrik at (~$10/ea).

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For $2900 you can get this AVR and center/surround speakers. Add another pair of interconnects and speaker cables for the speakers and you’re all set. Run interconnects from front L/R pre outs of the AVR to an unused input on your stereo preamp, and the AVR powers the center/surround speakers and handles HT processing, but when you listen to 2-channel it’s completely out of the signal path. All you do is change the input on your preamp to switch between HT and stereo. Easy peasy.
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