Help with Harman Kardon AVR 635

[dlapointeus]

Currently I'm using a Harman Kardon AVR 635 for my home theater. For my turntable, I have an old Scott tube amp and some Klipsch corner horns. In my old home theater system I used the tape outputs (old Onkyo receiver) into the Scott tube amp, and was able to use the corner horns for viewing music dvds when listening to them in 2 channel stereo. I want to do something similar with the Harman Kardon, and am curious if it can be done with the 6 channel multi line inputs - that is, somehow program the receiver to know when the DVD input is in 2 channel, to use the pre-outs to the Scott amp to use the corner horns. I'm a programmer and familiar with RTFM (which I've done) so I hesitated to ask this - but I think I'm missing something fundamental with how the 6 channel inputs/outputs work. Any guidance/suggestions as to whether this is possible, and how to set it up, are much appreciated.

 

[Alex2507]

somehow program the receiver to know when the DVD input is in 2 channel, to use the pre-outs to the Scott amp to use the corner horns.

If you plug the analog (red & white) DVD outputs into the 635's DVD inputs you can use the 635's analog Multiroom audio outputs (#31 on page 8) to send the analog DVD signal to your amp. I think you have to set that up in the Advanced menu settings but the manual will spell that out pretty well.

For home theater your DVD's optical or coaxial audio outs can be plugged into your 635 for Dolby Digital and DTS sound. You may be limited to 5.1 surround unless you go into the menu to switch the amps to rear surround duty instead of Multiroom duty. The manual will spell that out too.

I had the AVR 430 for a lot of years and I'm guessing that the 635 isn't too different. Just a heads up, there is a Product Update for the 635 and a revised manual all on this page.