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<blockquote data-quote="( . )( . )" data-source="post: 7929840" data-attributes="member: 619090">^^This^^!!princ3cmo: No offense intended, but I doubt the preouts from that Denon would put out enough signal voltage. I tried going straight out of several Onkyo&#039;s, Pioneer&#039;s, Marantz receivers to drive my XLS2000, XTi1000, Samson S1000, Audio Centron RMA-800 amps and it never worked well. You&#039;ll probably have to pre-amp/line-drive the signal cuz you&#039;ll only be getting about half of the amp&#039;s output otherwise with no headroom at all.A great, inexpensive option is to use a DJ type mixer with clean gains. This $250-ish Numark is $99 at GC and will be $79 Black Friday. iPod dock, lots of inputs, digital effects, cross-fade mixing, and yeah, tons of clean gain.<a href="http://www.guitarcenter.com/Numark-iM9-4-Channel-DJ-Mixer-for-iPod-106834120-i1784416.gc?source=4WWRWXGP&amp;amp;cagpspn=pla" target="_blank">Numark iM9 4-Channel DJ Mixer for iPod | GuitarCenter</a>I&#039;ve been using one as a hub for about 6 months to feed the Crowns and Samson. The XLS2000 is powering 3 JL 18W6&#039;s runnin IB and shaking the phuk out of the house...with NO BOX!!!<img src="http://i896.photobucket.com/albums/ac165/spanyerd/IMG_0834.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Because of Crown&#039;s excellent onboard programming options, you won&#039;t need an upstream crossover, time-alignment, etc.GL Bro!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="( . )( . ), post: 7929840, member: 619090"] ^^This^^!! princ3cmo: No offense intended, but I doubt the preouts from that Denon would put out enough signal voltage. I tried going straight out of several Onkyo's, Pioneer's, Marantz receivers to drive my XLS2000, XTi1000, Samson S1000, Audio Centron RMA-800 amps and it never worked well. You'll probably have to pre-amp/line-drive the signal cuz you'll only be getting about half of the amp's output otherwise with no headroom at all. A great, inexpensive option is to use a DJ type mixer with clean gains. This $250-ish Numark is $99 at GC and will be $79 Black Friday. iPod dock, lots of inputs, digital effects, cross-fade mixing, and yeah, tons of clean gain. [URL="http://www.guitarcenter.com/Numark-iM9-4-Channel-DJ-Mixer-for-iPod-106834120-i1784416.gc?source=4WWRWXGP&cagpspn=pla"]Numark iM9 4-Channel DJ Mixer for iPod | GuitarCenter[/URL] I've been using one as a hub for about 6 months to feed the Crowns and Samson. The XLS2000 is powering 3 JL 18W6's runnin IB and shaking the phuk out of the house...with NO BOX!!! [IMG]http://i896.photobucket.com/albums/ac165/spanyerd/IMG_0834.jpg[/IMG] Because of Crown's excellent onboard programming options, you won't need an upstream crossover, time-alignment, etc. GL Bro! [/QUOTE]

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