Aaron,
This is pretty commonly done and many of us do this exact thing. I myself asked this question several year ago.
Feed your HT preamp's surround and center channels into the resepective amps, while the main L&R channels go into one of the tape or aux inputs of your Aragon. You must pick a level on your Aragon's preamp with which to calibrate the 5.1 channels. That level can be just a random level that other gear is often dialed to, or it can be a 12 o'clock position. Just pick one als always use that volume when listening to HT. Some peramps have HT passthrough just for this function of passing through at unity gain.
The one issue of leaving it at 12 O'clock is you must be sure to turn it down each time before going to another input.
You then calibrate the 5.1 test tones, and control the volume of HT playback with the Anthem's volume.
You do loose a bit of transparency on the main L&R channel when listening to home theater, since it is now passing through another piece of gear, but you dont loose anything when listening to 2 channel music.
This is pretty commonly done and many of us do this exact thing. I myself asked this question several year ago.
Feed your HT preamp's surround and center channels into the resepective amps, while the main L&R channels go into one of the tape or aux inputs of your Aragon. You must pick a level on your Aragon's preamp with which to calibrate the 5.1 channels. That level can be just a random level that other gear is often dialed to, or it can be a 12 o'clock position. Just pick one als always use that volume when listening to HT. Some peramps have HT passthrough just for this function of passing through at unity gain.
The one issue of leaving it at 12 O'clock is you must be sure to turn it down each time before going to another input.
You then calibrate the 5.1 test tones, and control the volume of HT playback with the Anthem's volume.
You do loose a bit of transparency on the main L&R channel when listening to home theater, since it is now passing through another piece of gear, but you dont loose anything when listening to 2 channel music.