Home theater integration

[jbraveman]

I love my quickie and I do mostly 2 channel music listening.  However, I want to use my 2 main speakers as mains in my home theater setup as well.  My HT reciever (outlaw 1050) has some preamp outs designed for use with separate amps.  The Outlaw tech I spoke with suggested that I could run the quickie in front of my 2 monoblocks from these outputs.  I've given it a shot and it sounds pretty good. The advantage of this arrangement also is I can use more sources than the 2 that the quickie allows by having everything connected to the reciever.

My 2 ch setup was: Turtable/squeezebox > quickie > outlaw 2200 monoblocks > paradigm studio 100 v 2
What I'm trying:  sources > outlaw 1050 > L/R front pre outs > quickie > monoblocks > speakers

What would the best way to pull this off aside from having 2 separate rigs run side by side?

Would an amplifier switch be a better choice?

What do people do who want to run more than 2 sources through the quickie?

Thanks,
Josh

[q]

Hey another "Outlaw" that's cool
I have/had the 1050 with my system. Letting my oldest son "borrow" it for now. That is until I get my old Cyrus 2 cleaned up and running. Has a very noisy pot. I highly recommend you feed your Quickie the pre-outs from the Outlaw. I had this arrangement in place for a long time. I found the Outlaw to be mostly transparent. In some ways there was a little dryer sound with a deeper soundstage. Less forward sound, a little more laid back. This was a clear advantage when I was running my Visaton B200 unfiltered in an Open Baffle arrangement.

Don’t know much about an amplifier switch. As far as how I am running more than two sources. I actually feed the Quickie from my TV’s pre outs. These are sources that I’m not all that critical about so it’s all good. For serious listening the Quickie gets a signal directly from my DAC.

I think you will enjoy the heck out of this arrangement. I’ve gone back to my old Charlize mnblks with SLA Battery PS(s). The battery powered Quickie and these Charlize amps are one heck of an interesting sound. I like the Tube/SS combo, I like it so much that I have my Foreplay3 in the “lab” for some future upgrades. Next step is trying Charlize 2’s  and reintroducing a Spud amp (6CL6/6197- Single ended pentode).

I think, hope I am waiting long enough before I make changes to the system. I used to change things way to fast thinking I was making things sound better. The quick changes ended up making me think that the “Difference” in sound was “better”

Enjoy, I think you’ll like this change
q
 

[jbraveman]

Thanks for the feedback.  I need some validation for how I have things hooked up.

Hey another "Outlaw" that's cool
I have/had the 1050 with my system. Letting my oldest son "borrow" it for now. That is until I get my old Cyrus 2 cleaned up and running. Has a very noisy pot. I highly recommend you feed your Quickie the pre-outs from the Outlaw. I had this arrangement in place for a long time. I found the Outlaw to be mostly transparent. In some ways there was a little dryer sound with a deeper soundstage. Less forward sound, a little more laid back. This was a clear advantage when I was running my Visaton B200 unfiltered in an Open Baffle arrangement.

Don’t know much about an amplifier switch. As far as how I am running more than two sources. I actually feed the Quickie from my TV’s pre outs. These are sources that I’m not all that critical about so it’s all good. For serious listening the Quickie gets a signal directly from my DAC.

I think you will enjoy the heck out of this arrangement. I’ve gone back to my old Charlize mnblks with SLA Battery PS(s). The battery powered Quickie and these Charlize amps are one heck of an interesting sound. I like the Tube/SS combo, I like it so much that I have my Foreplay3 in the “lab” for some future upgrades. Next step is trying Charlize 2’s  and reintroducing a Spud amp (6CL6/6197- Single ended pentode).

I think, hope I am waiting long enough before I make changes to the system. I used to change things way to fast thinking I was making things sound better. The quick changes ended up making me think that the “Difference” in sound was “better”

Enjoy, I think you’ll like this change
q