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I am looking at purchasing a Denon receiver with preamp outputs. I have BL5s for front and 17s for rear. I was thinking of plugging the 5s into the playmaker then into the receiver. Then the 17s wireless to BL wireless receiver then into the receiver. Then the 4th gen Apple TV into the receiver (which should theoretically turn on/off the receiver and control it's volume).
Do you all see any issues? I have heard that there could be delay to the 5s with the playmaker (using the playmaker so I don't have to manually turn on the 5s with a B&O remote).
Thoughts?
Hi Austin,
I am using Marantz SR 5010 - using pre-amp out as you are suggesting.
Don't understand why you would want to plug the BL5's into a playmaker - in my opinion just use the playmaker as one of the source inputs to the Denon and connect the BL 5's to the front pre-amp out.
You then would connect the rear pre-amp out to the Transmitter 1 which then connects wirelessly to the 17's.
I am sure there is a remote app like for marantz and you control all your functions over the phone or iPad.
I am quite certain that the Denon has a Apple Play function so you can stream directly to the receiver and you don't even need the playmaker.
Good luck.
Tifoso48, thank you for the suggestion!
The reason I was going to plug the 5s into the playmaker was that I was told the 5s will not turn themselves on or off based on audio signal. I would have to use a B&O remote to turn them on and off. Is that not true?
There are cables that create a fully-compliant powerlink signal. It uses a 'trigger' signal from the receiver and turns the lab5 on.
I have heard about those, but I believe the 5s are an exception that do not work with the adapter.
The lab5 works fine with those cables.