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connecting up the pieces.

Hello.

I have been building the cabinets for the last month and now I am ready to connect together the equiptment. I am a pretty good carpenter but not so good at the connecting part :)
So I have a speakercraft starlet 9 for the center, starlet 6's for the L and R dipole 5's for the rear. The starlets have the tweeters and the woofers seperate so I have 6 sets of speaker wires. OK, So I have a McIntosh 7106 for the L,R and C and a MC122 for the rears. The pre-amp is a marantz AV8003. Here is where I have hit the wall. The 8003 has ONE RCA input for the L, R and C and whats coming out of the back of the McIntosh for the L, R and C is TWO RCA jacks. Can I use a Y connector or will I lose sound quality? Should I be using the XLR section and a Y connector instead of the RCA connector section? Is there another way I should be hooking this all up? HELP.

Thanks in advance.
steveny

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reubent
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Steve,

I'm not very familiar with the components you mention, but I'll take a stab at it. If my comments are obviously incorrect based on the actual inputs/outputs of your components, please disregard......

OK, I think the Startlets require bi-amping which means you will need two channels of amplification for each of the Starlets. So, since you are using Starlets for L,R and C, you will need 6 channels of amplification for the front 3 speakers. Looks like the Mac 7106 should do the trick.

Since you say the Marantz only has one L, one C and one R OUTPUT, you will need to use a Y connector to connect the 3 outputs from the pre-amp to the 6 required channels of amplification.

I'm guessing the Dipole 5's do not require bi-amping, so the 2 channels of amplification from the MC122 should be all you need.

If the Marantz only has a single output for the L, R and C channels, you won't have any choice except to use a Y adapter or Y cable set to drive the inputs to the 6 channels of amplification required for the front 3 Startlet speakers.

I hope this helps and I didn't just waste your time (and mine!).

Enjoy,

TIC
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