Thanks Gong

I have a few questions and would like to share my system set up.

I know you are up on connections and setting with the 970 process. I think this question would apply to either the OPPO or Panasonic player with on board processing. If I use my 970 7.1 inputs with bass management set to on how should I set the speaker size and delay in the Blu-ray player?

I am also looking at keeping the 981HD in the loop with the Panasonic for blu-ray play connected to the DVD/7.1 inputs on the 970. I currently have my HD sat receiver hooked to the Video 2 input on the 970. Can I use the video 3 input for the OPPO 981HD? My HD video connections are direct to my HD TV.

I would like to share a connection set up I am using to play music. First off let me explain my room layout. I have a very large room which is 27 feet in length. The front part of the room is my home theater set up with a 7.1 speaker/sub arrangement. The back part of the room I have a pool table and side bar where most of my CD music is played. The problem here was that the music listening area is behine the sweet spot. Here is what I did to fix this problem. I added a second powered sub and a set of speakers in the back end of the room. I installed a A/B speaker switch to switch between my back surrounds and the back speakers I added. I ran the RCA speaker outs L/R from my 200 CD changer to the 7.1 inputs on the 970 with a RCA Y's to front mains and back surrounds. Not sure if anyone has tryed this but this a kicker music set up. The subs seem to be much more musical with very tight bass. Much better sound from subs than 7 channel stereo set up. Not sure why this is, maybe bypassing addtional processing in the 970??

Maybe I'am mssing something on an alternate connection for my CD player. I had though about just splitting the mains with the A/B switch in stereo mode but this would put two pair of 8 ohm speakers on my 7125. Not sure if I will get the same response from my subs and speakers with this set up.

I think you know where I am going with this. I will need the 7.1 inputs for Blu-ray connections.

Any thoughts on this?