Nick you're all over the place man.
Ok, so the KEF/B&W? stands are out and you would consider 47lbs ok?
Yes Brian Ding is cool and a very sharp guy (PhD EE, not some hack fiddling about with electronic circuits and imagining hearing stuff), he speaks my language..and knoweth what he speaks. Can't beat those L12s bang for buck and they are relatively small. So it you put short stands atop them to KEFs you'll be fine.
Wasn't aware you're not averse to y-cables (some audiophile believers freak out about simple stuff like that). That will work. The cables will act as a voltage divider, but your amp is way more power than KEFs need, so the slight drop in gain will be moot. Only potential issue is ground loops, but not inevitable. Both power supplies are well designed. If you go that route, you can avoid going through the dsp with your main amp/KEF, feed the "sub" Y out to dsp>sub. A plain ol Mindsp2x4 ($100) will be plenty there. You can high pass the KEF using an inline Fmod at say 100hz.
cheers,
AJ
AJ,
Yes, agree somewhat with you. Lots of opinions and information to assimilate
Heck, it took me quite a while to make a decision on speakers and those little LS 50s worked out great. 47 lbs is still more than I’d like, but better than 58 lbs.....
As to y splitters, I’m ok doing that, but would much prefer a connection like the speakons that REL and Sumiko use. SVS has speaker terminals and that’s still preferable to y splitters, but can’t have everything.....
As to a device like the minidsp, that would be ok with me.
When you combine wife + budget + space limitations, it’s never an easy process
Nick