Well, i'm new to these parts, never thought i could afford seperates. My original plan was to buy a denon reciever at crutchfield, then i started reading ecoustic and boards like it and I'm confused more then ever lol.

I always thought denon was a good brand. I've got an older denon and had no problems with it except a blown fuse because I plugged a vacum in the outlets in the back of it opps. The reciver is now 8-9 years old, is dolby proloigic 5.0 setup. nothing digital about it. The balance works if you tap it just right. So it time to upgrade here soon(about 3 years ago hehe)

I was reading the ecoustic board and someone refered a reader here, and that is how I found you ban of outlaws .. This sounds like a very promising setup for me. Great quality, great price, no useless bells and whistles.

Here is my speaker set-up and what i'm thinking of doing.

I have 4 book shelf speakers that where built by a local speaker dealer, that mainly dealt in car audio, the owner was a engineer at The local Toshiba crt tube manufactering plant. The speakers where used as the fronts and rear sound, and have a 5-1/4" speaker and a tweater. The center has 2 5-1/4" and a tweeter. and the bass is a box that contains two 8-ohm candence 10 speakers that handle 175-250 watts not sure.

Here are my thoughts, get the 950/7100 combo the 100 watts per channel should be plenty. The room size is 12'x24' with about 8' high selling.

the room has french patio doors centered in the room, and will have a larger(bay window, or a 4'x4'window) window on the left side of the room along the 12' wall, the other 12' wall on the right of the room will be wall, for the tv :p perhaps, or the tv may go along the 24' wall right of the doors, and that be the seating area. (so the listening area my be the whole room with the setting area 15-22' away from the tv or maybe 10-12' feet away tucked in the back corner of the room) on the other 24' wall is a sliding glass door size opening to the kitchen about 4 feet from the window side of the room. Sorry to explain all that but these questions usaly come up. :p

back to my setup thoughts.

hook the speakers to this lovely amp, 2 book shelfs for the fronts, 2 bookshelfs for the rear, the center and hook the 2- 10" woofers to the rear surrond left and right of the amp using a Y-adapter and the sub-out of the preamp, the y adapter to share the low frequency output of the preamp. Setting the processor to play in 5.1 .


What do you think. It sound like this could effectivly work?.

If this speaker setup works well fulling the room with sound, I'll stick with it for a long time. Since there is hardly any 6.1 material out yet in dvd's and no 7.1 at all.... I was thinking of getting a powered sub, because the subwoofer setup i have currently was hooked up to the front left and right so bascialy it was a split tower speaker, and my current Denon i think is 55 watts per channel so that is bearly pushing the subs.

If the speakers by chance die my plans are to get Axiom m60's or m80's depending on the outlaws impendance is 4 ohm or 8 ohm.

Thanks for the time

I own a 950/7100 combo running a 7.1 Mission M7 set up and before I made that purchase I used Adcom for my Amp/Pre-Amp and Denon for my sources.

The 950/7100 combo blew my Adcom equipment away in performance and price. The 950/7100 would have no problem handling what you are describing to me.

All I can say is take the pluge, you will not look back!!!

The arrangement will certainly work. Since the passive subwoofer that you have is currently connected inline with the main speakers, it should be easy to shift things around in the way you've described. If you decide to upgrade to 7.1 later, you can either replace the passive sub with a powered sub or just pick up a separate amp to drive the sub (either a cheap plate amp from Part Express or a Model 200 monoblock from Outlaw) and let the 7100 drive seven speakers.

If you do decide to upgrade speakers, you don't need to worry much about speaker impedance - the 7100 will be stable into loads below 4 ohms without breaking a sweat - the Axiom M60's and M80's would both be good choices.