Newb looking for some general advice

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   Hello all,
After years of being a member of the site, I'm finally getting prepped to build my first system.

Not being super rich I would still like to purchase the best gear I can and appreciate this Rig may take a while to get out and start making some noise.

*Please note* Follows are a fair amount of questions 

What I have so far:

Source:

A&H Xone 4D mixer / 2x Pioneer PLX-1000 / 2x Pioneer CDJ's (Not mine not sure of model details).

System (So Far):

2x Eminence KAPPA 15LF 8ohm 15" 600watt Drivers 

 - which I intend to build into a pair of HD15 cabs.

2x Tannoy CPA12 - Dual Concentric PA Speakers - uses a Tannoy 3134 12" high output waveguide Dual Concentric Driver

 - I'm trying to find out some further details on these speakers, however, the scans on the famous hilberink.nl Tannoy fansite are very difficult to read as you can see if you visit the site: http://www.hilberink.nl/codehans/tannoy41.htm (the CPA12's are near the bottom of the page).

My main question at the moment regards using a dual concentric driver in my system and what sort of loudspeaker management system I would be best to look at that will be able to support this part of the rig. 

I'm planning on transferring the drivers from their original cabs into boxes that will suit the style of the rest of the system - I expect I'll build boxes of a similar size to the original cabs (perhaps a bit bigger) the tannerds on the hilberink site should be able to provide me with appropriate crossover designs for the new slightly larger cabs or will this not required as I should be using an active crossover in my rack?

Finally, I plan to add, at first, 1 pair of either C-Subs or 184 Subs. The system will mostly be playing Jungle, Dancehall and most other types of bass music, which of these subs would be better for me to build? I don't want to build scoop bins! 

Over time I plan to expand the system to have 2 pairs of subs, 2 pairs of HD15's and we'll see what happens with the top half of the system!

I would also really appreciate some advice as to what I require to have in my rack to run my soundsystem, I know I require amplifiers but its what goes between the speakers and the amps to control everything that I really need advice on.

As mentioned above, I'm new to this so fairly simple responses would be appreciated  

Thanks for any advice you lovely folk may be able to provide me with.

All the best,

unf0ld