I just picked up the following setup last week:

Yamaha RX-V2500 Receiver
Yamaha DVD-C950 5 CD Changer w/ DVD-A and SACD
Definitive Technology 7002's
Definitive Technology CLR 2000 Center
Defintiive Technology BPX2 Surrounds

I have been reading on DVD/A and SACD and someone from another forum recommended I look at this product to help with some of my bass problems.

Everything looks good and before I make the plunge I'm just wondering how does it work with the 7002's.

The 7002's each have a built in 300 watt 12" sub. With stereo it does its own cross over internally and in 5.1 it sends via the LFE which I also have hooked up.

My assumption is I hooked up the ICBM and can redirect most of the bass from the rears/center into the sub channel. The Yamaha then sends that out via the LFE to the fronts correct?

I have a ton of options for speaker management except when I'm using the multichannel, just a volume selection thats it.

Since the 7002's do so well in bass, the active sub plus 2 12" passive woofers I do find alot of things get lost in them, especially for regular CD's played back in multichannel.

If I could lean everything out a bit the sound would be much much better.

I'm itching to order just so long as it will do what I think it will do. My worry is that the 12" passive subs will become useless if I strip too much out.

Thanks,

Eric

With a receiver, the ICBM has only one place to go: between teh C950 and the V2500. Some people put ICBM's between a receiver or processor and an outboard amp, but that's not an option in this case. With the ICBM in this position, you would use it for DVD-Audio and SACD playback (and possibly CD's, if the C950 is better behaved than my Yamaha S1500 and will let you have multichannel analog output for DVD-A and SACD but still have CD's output in stereo - my S1500 forces Pro Logic II decoding onto CD's when listening to the 5.1 output). With the ICBM, you can direct low frequency from the five full-range channels to the sub, so that the .1 from DVD-A and SACD will have low frequency from the other five channels added in. That combined data will go to whatever is connected to the V2500's sub output (which it sounds like would be the two 12" subs in the 7002's in your case).

Sweet, sounds like what I want.

Yes the 950 will output 2 channel in multichannel and it sounds much much better than if I let the reciever do the work.

I read the manual and am now trying to find a local dealer, hate waiting for stuff in the mail

What are you looking for a local dealer for? If you are looking for a local Outlaw dealer, there aren't any - they sell direct only.

Found that out...I called them but they were closed.

Have to wait until tommorow morning.

My ICBM showed up last night!!!

However...the box with the cables did not

One more day....