The electronics for the system are contained in a hall closet located behind the speaker wall. The speaker cable runs through the front wall, into the living room, and power to the closet is supplied by the two power conditioners which are plugged into a single outlet in a spare bedroom (then ran through the wall into the closet). The room is approx. 18' x 24' x 8' (1/3 of which is the dining and kitchen area). The floors are plaster/carpet/cotten rugs and the room contains three walls of books. The rest of the wall/door space is covered with (mainly) paintings on canvas. Lots of clutter, cats, et cetera.
For now I would plug both preamps into the Monster (along with the CD player). I'm not certain that separating digital from analog makes a difference in my setup, plus when I play LP's the CD running off the line preamp's conditioner should have no effect.
Maybe try one of the online "best price" shopping services? This is how I picked up two HTS2000's for approx. $250 (shipped) a few years ago.
Sorry I missed your question until now. The HTS 2000's seem to perform better w/o a bunch of stuff plugged into a single unit.
As I rarely use the CD player anymore (Chloe uses it most of the time) I now plug the little 2A3 mono blocks (only) into a single HTS-2000. Before I used a separate one for the CD player (further back for the CD player/transport and the DAC), and this was the best configuration for CD playback.
Doesn't make much sense as both of the HTS-2000's are plugged into the same line/outlet, but using two does sound better.
Some have noticed a loss of dynamics when running their power amps from an HTS-2000 (so did I when I had everything plugged into a single unit, though the loss was quite small with any of my amps which were not exactly power hungry).
When using a single unit for the power amps I only hear an improvement (much better sound -w- no loss of dynamics). "Much better sound" being due, most likely, to the shitty power supply/quality that we have to cope with in LA (your dedicated lines though better than what I am dealing with do not negate this), plus we really do require surge protection in our area (we lost the living room TV & VCR from a brown out/surge six months ago).
Hi Kurt: I only use two of the BMI PC's in the system (I use but one amp @ a time and switch back and forth). Currently the 240 amp is non-operable as I am working on the basics (new RCA's, hookup wire, etc.) before I figure out how to recap it (a nice gentleman @ AA mailed me a set of schematics). I would start with a single Whale (and move it about your setup) as I have read that there is a nice synergy between the two models. The sound of the Whale is accumulative and one or possibly two in key positions may be enough. Thanks for the TT link. David.