Help with Lexicon MC1

I am dealing with the same dillemma. If you have a processor loop on your two channel preamp, it's easy. If you don't...I have done some research on it, and here's what I came up with:
Run the Left & Right channels of the HT Processor into an input on your two ch preamp.
When using the "home theater mode" select that input on your two ch preamp, and figure out with a spl meter what volume setting on your two channel equals the "no gain, no attenuation" setting (you will need to do this, because you will have two volume controls active: the one in the processor and the one in the two ch preamp, in an overlaping config.)
Mark the spot on your volume pot of the two ch pre with crayon or something soft as to not damage the finish.
You will have to have the volume of your 2 ch at that exact spot every time you watch a movie, and you will be using the processor's volume control for 5 ch gain.
When you want to listen to stereo, you shut off the processor, and your two ch preamp is running direct into your amp.
Also run all your 2 ch analog signals thru the two channel preamp, and not thru the HT precessor.
I am getting much better sound from my stereo preamp than my HT preamp, so I use the two ch for all my critical listening and only turn on the HT pre when wathing a movie.

Do you have to use your preamp for watching tv? I prefer not to use my tube preamp for tv viewing to save the tubes. Is there another way to avoid using 2 sets of speaker cables.{what i'm doing now}?

hey guys i have a dc-1 and a proceed hpa-2 the proceed amp
has a switch(2 actually) that lets me choose between rca and balanced inputs could i not buy a proceed,levinson or wadia cd player with balanced outs and a volume control and bypass the lexicon completely by moving the switches on the amp from rca to balanced? Correct me if im wrong but dosent the dc-1, mc-1 convert all inputs to digital and have a digital volume control. some of the options above seem like they would be running the siginal from the source to the mc-1 where it gets digitized (with the poor lexicon dacs)then converted back to analog then sent on to a seperate preamp, by then has the damage not already been done? Im going to post this message as a seperate post because i would really like some clarification on this question.
Thanks Lee Ross
LRoss@CNGMail.com
for those of you reading this from the new post the original question was ask on 3-17 with the subject of
Help with Lexicon MC1