@carlsbad2 Nice system. I've not heard of those speakers, but they look quite interesting with four 8" woofer.
My conrad-johnson preamps had a true theatre pass through. The front channels from the surround processor went straight through the preamp to my amplifier. My LTA is not that way and it confused me at first when I was trying to level match the 5 channels. LTA picked some random output level for one of the inputs that is labeled HT and locked it there. I contacted them to verify this.