Yamaha System Set Up

Velocityboat

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I currently have a R-2000 150 WPC driving some Mcintosh XRT20s and a R-1000 100 WPC driving XR19 Mcintosh speakers with the the R-2000 being preamp for R-1000. I am considering using a Yamaha PC2602 pro amp 260 WPC to drive the XRT20 speakers and let the R-2000 drive XR19s.

Can I just hook the Preamp on R-2000 to XLRs on PC2602 in unbalanced switched mode then daisy chain off the other set of XLRs to feed signal to amp on R-1000 to drive another set of Mc XR5 speakers.

What will provide more grunt to the XRT20s and XR19s which are 8 Ohm speakers? Both XRT20 and XR19 running off same tap of PC2602 for 4 Ohm load and 400 WPc. Or letting the PC2602 just drive 8 ohms to XRT20s at 260 WPC and Ri2000 drive XR19s at 8 ohm with 150 WPC with its 3 dB headroom?

If I hook up with seperate Amps what is best way to set gain of PC2602 to achieve balanced sound with R-2000 to both of big Mcintosh? By ear?

The PC2602 has a bigger transformer draws 1300 watts. The R2000 is no slouch with X power and some huge Caps but operates drawing 550 watt PS.


Thanks for input!
 
Here is what I'd do - feel free to agree or disagree.

Make the R1000 your main source. From the pre-outs, connect to the unbalanced (RCA) ins of the 2602 and hook your largest speakers up to it. Use a tape out on the R1000 to hook to any input on the R2000 and hook the other speakers up to the amp outs of the R2000. You'll have separate volume control of each set of speakers this way, and you'll leverage the most powerful amps you have.

What I don't know, is if the R-1000 will send any signal to the tape out (and the downstream R2000) once you hook the 2602 to the Preamp outs.

Try it and let us know...

jblnut
 
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