Are Their any Tube Preamp with Home Theater Bypass?


Does anyone have experience with a decent tube based preamp with a home theater bypass feature?

kota1

I've never found bypass particularly useful. I traded in the only piece I ever owned that had it.

Mine that I described above.  

If I misunderstood your comment is is probably because i've heard so many people that think HT bypass is something in the signal path for 2 channel sound.  So I guessed that you were in that camp.  

There are quite a few good integrated SS amps with HT bypass.

 

 

@carlsbad

Why must you haste to take my feedback out of context? Would you mind showing a hybrid system that excels both in 2 ch and HT at ultimate level?

@lalitk your comments show that you do not understand ht bypass.  HT bypass has exactly zero impact on 2 channel sound.

But there are many in the same boat who avoid HT bypass because they think it is a compromise.  

Jerry

 

 

It exists for a reason and when you have a nice 2 channel rig but want to incorporate surround sound it’s the way to go.  

@audiotroy , thanks for the work around and everyone else thanks for the suggestions

I agree about keeping them separate but that’s not always practical or possible 

Conrad Johnson.   And no , not any preamp will work if you want it to sound half way decent.   The proper HT bypass eliminates the volume , the input is unity gain

The receiver or HT pre pro is the master volume when watching video. 

To name a few,

ARC REF 6SE & LS28SE

Modwright LS300 & LS 36.5 Tube Linestage

Backert Labs Rhythm & Rhumba

IME, you’re better off keeping 2-ch and home theater separate. Can it work, sure but the end results can be very mid-fi on either side. If you’re striving for ultimate performance in both arenas, keep them apart. Been there, done that with ARC / Modwright on 2 ch and Classe Delta Series / Krell Evolution Processor and Amps on HT - 7.2 driving all B&W 800D2/HTM/804D/SCMS/JL Audio f212v2. 

You dont need that feature any preamp will work:

 

in set up all you have to do is to match the levels of the fronts with the center and rears with a spl meter then note where the preamps volume control is set and your done

 

Dave and Trpy

Audio intellect NJ

Av dealer and installer

Not a fan of Primaluna but I think they have an HT bypass.

My tube integrated has 2 inputs.

I use my DAC as a preamp so I turn up the volume to max on my integrated.  With the volume turned up to max, each input is the equivalent to an HT bypass (HT bypass bypasses the preamp).  

So my DAC goes into one input and my HT goes into the other.  Works great.

Jerry