Bass Management


I have Acoustic Research AR1's in front with powered subs.
I have full range non-powered speakers for surrounds, and therefore want all channels to be driven in full range.To do this, I must select "Large" speaker setting for my front powered towers in order to be able to select "large" for my surrounds. My Pioneer receiver will not allow for "small" fronts and "large" surrounds (if you select "small" fronts, all others including center, must be "small" also). In addition, AR strongly suggests that I use the Speaker connections for the mid/tweeter and the LFE
connection for the subs on my AR1's. When I use only the speaker connection, I still have PLENTY of bass volume on both music and movies, but I have recently plugged into SACD and DVD-Audio, which have the six channel output directly to the receiver's multi-channel input. One of these channels is specifically marked "subwoofer". My question is...what happens to this channel? Does the receiver mix the LFE info into all of my "full range" speakers, or is it only in the fronts, or is it possibly lost altogether? Please help me with any comments or suggestions!

Thank you!
fpawardse1f9
(SoGood51)...With most receiver set up's there is no way to add the ICBM from OUtlaw to the system to all channels! Unless the receiver has "pre-out's" and "main-in's", you can't do this. If he was using pre-out's to another amplifier or something, he could indeed buy the Outlaw ICBM, and configure as he pleased using that device(simply setting the receiver to "large" for all speakers). But that's not the case from what's in question here I think.
foreverhifi, he only needs to hook his players 5.1 outputs to the ICBM and then the 5.1 outputs on the ICBM go to the 5.1 inputs on his receiver.
"Sogood51", can he do this? I didn't think you could. Funny, if that's the case, I guess it's workable then. I din't know you could do it that way, but I guess you are probably correct. Hummmm...that could work. I would like to ask Outlaw if this can be done. For some reason, I didn't think it was the same as a "pre-in" functionally.
"Sogood51", I just called Yamaha in Southern California(close to me), and they said that you CANNOT LOOP FROM YOUR PRE-OUT'S BACK INTO THE 6.1/5.1 CHANNEL INPUTS!!!! I don't think you'll probably be able to do this with any other receiver also...but could be wrong of course.
I just thought this might be helpful for anyone thinking of trying this to know!
Soogood51... correct me if im wrong but i think what
your saying is put the ICBM between the DVD-A
/SACD and the 6CH input on the Yamaha. Forever he is not saying to loop out and back in the reciever. The 6ch input is an analog bypass mode especially for DVD-A/SACD.
As far as I know (im 99.9999% sure) SOGOOD's theory will
work fine.