sogood51

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Amp, preamp & tuner for $4K
On a good/better/best line of thought with your speakers and cdp here is what I think. Good: Odyssey audio amp and preamp, this is a great hi-end bang for buck company with top notch after sale support should you ever need it. This would be a new ... 
Krell Master Reference Amplifier
There ya go, FINALLY, a person who has listened to all the solid state amps in the world and had time to rank them. I hope you could now give us the best tube amps also. 
Holy Grail of Audio Systems
There are a lot of holy grail's out there Audiophanatic, mine stay with me about 5 years, then it's time for a new grail. I'm thinking of finding a new holy grail as I type this, 5 years are up and it's about time for a new sound in the old house.... 
Seperating 2 channel and HT in the same system.
Abex, F.T.audio is a great passive, I may pick up a used one for my second system. Congrat's on the speakers, if your going to use the F.T. audio with pre/pro then I would just get a bang for buck model (outlaw, rotel, ect.) the top of the line pr... 
Stands make a huge difference with ProAc
OSIRIS stands can be found for $250-$300, I have a set I use under my Vmps 626's. These are very well made and heavy stands (50lb. each unfilled) with good spikes that adjust up or down about 2 inches. Like Herman said, good stands will give you n... 
Seperating 2 channel and HT in the same system.
If you use pre-amp without pass through input you could do that. In my setup I use a Bent audio passive unit for two channel and sunfire theatergrand pre/pro, unity gain with the Bent passive is: volume all the way up, I have to remember to turn i... 
Good HT, bad 2 channel. On Budget, Any advise?
The Primare A30.1 is an integrated amp, why would you not use it's preamp? 
DVD-Audio 5.1 into 7.1
I guess I did not understand his question, I thought he ment for movies because he said 7.1. For dvd audio you would use your analog 5.1 outs on the player. As far as the speaker hookup goes, try it all and see what sounds best. dipole or bipole m... 
Seperating 2 channel and HT in the same system.
One note Joew, you would always need to remember to turn the volume control back down before switching inputs on the two channel pre from movie to other source. 
Seperating 2 channel and HT in the same system.
Joew, to add a high quality two channel pre to a hometheater system is pretty easy, I will try to explain. You can add a tube/SS/passive pre of your choice, hook up is the same for each. Some pre-amps have a hometheater pass through input for more... 
DVD-Audio 5.1 into 7.1
Use the players digital out to the denon 3803. 
Long v. short
I tend to like long wall if speakers must be close to rear wall and short wall if I can pull them out 4-5 ft. from the rear wall. 
How can i hook this up???
As far as I know, the bypass on the pre/pro is not complete bypass and will degrade sound. I have a passive pre in my system I use for two channel from my sacd player and have it hooked up as I stated with the only exception of volume control sett... 
Seperating 2 channel and HT in the same system.
If your two channel pre does not have hometheater pass through you can still hook it up and it will still work fine. This was asked yesterday and I explained how to do it in that thread. 
"Grid leakage" problem common to tube pre-amps?
Thanks Marakanetz, I had read something about Krell amps and tubes but could not remember what it was.