Advice needed - Hifi dual purposed with home cinema sound

Multiway

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My daughters want me to dual purpose 'our' listening room to include cinema!

I like getting away from the screen, but a large screen would fit nicely on the front wall between the SH50s I made.

They seem to do voice etc just fine centred nicely, so centre speaker not really necessary?
Couple of smaller rears and we'd be there..

The 2 tapped horn subs and the 2 SH50s, provide all the dynamics I could wish for..

The above is configured in a 4/5 way 2 channel hifi.
I stream Qobuz with Sonore Ultrarendu into a high quality DIYaudio project offering that does the 4 way DSP / X/O / preamp, outputting to be 5 power amps.
This does all the timing, PEQs and X/Os needed for the 2 channel.

Question is how to get the DSP'd / PEQs / crossovered SH50s and subs integrated with the rears in an AV cinema setup?

Is there a DSP capable preamp / 5.1 unit or something that could split off the 5.1 to my existing DSP 2 channel system as left and right, and allow rear speakers and subs to get what they need?

Would also need to work as a hifi 2 channel 4 / 5 way set up.

That's my conundrum.

Whilst I'm very into 2 channel, I haven't used a 5.1 amp Yamaha surround receiver in 15 years!
We have Sonos system with rears in the lounge for cosy TV watching.

The cinema room would the hifi room but with a 6 to 8 seater in 2 rows with full Danley dynamics for family movie only watching.

All help and advice gratefully received.
 

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