Integrating 440 with Cinema

[teddlesdee]

1) There is a gain slider for line in configured for bypass but you may find increasing it too much will induce hiss.  You can also increase the level of your fronts to match your center and rears using your Athem.  A happy medium will need to be found.  Heat can also be a concern with not enough current coming in from the Anthem.
2) Configure Anthem to not have a subwoofer and to pass full range signal to your fronts.  The Devialet will them take over cross over duties.
3) Not sure
4) Sounds like your config isn't actually loading, the default config is, which might explain some of the other issues you are experiencing.  Have you named your config and see if the amp displays that name when booting up?

Thanks for your thoughts...

Bit concerned about the comment " you may find increasing it too much will induce hiss" and "Heat can also be a concern with not enough current coming in from the Anthem"
Sounds like a bit of a 'Cludge' though? Yes there is a db gain on the Anthem, but not a lot, and not enough on its own to overcome the issue. There is also another factor here, and I am not sure of the answer, in that if you up the gain on the Anthem manually for the fronts significantly, would this create an issue when using Anthems room correction/ balancing software when setting up the room, i.e. is there a danger of the fronts running out of automatic adjustment of needed!

Although not recommended, I did think of avoiding all this fuss, and just wiring the Anthem directly to the fronts also, knowing that I would only be using Cinema or HiFi separately, ie. the other would be switched off! - but I am guessing this could mess up stuff if both accidentally were on! Pity there was not a manual hi-fi grade speaker switch I could employ! ...but then there is the problem of the SUB!!!!

Gawd!