integrating HT with 2 channel

I have the HT and 2 channel setup. The way it works is your HT processor's line level outs for left and right go to the pre-amp. Your CD player/DAC/whatever also goes to the pre-amp. Then your pre-amp connects to your monoblocks (or whatever amp) and then the amps to the speakers.

Then when you watch TV/Movies you put the pre-amp in passthrough mode (manufactures may have different name for the same thing) and you get unadulterated sound from your processor.

When you want to play a CD, just switch the input on the pre-amp to the CD input.

I'm using the McIntosh C500t (tube) pre-amp and a 5v trigger lead connects my classe processro with it. When I turn on my classe, that 5v lead going into "passthrough" trigger input powers on the pre-amp and automatically puts it in passthrough mode.

I'm not sure if that answers your question, but thats pretty much the way HT and 2 channel gets integrated having only 1 set of amps and speakers.

a very similar setup is described in the HT bypass feature section of the peachtree decco

[http://signalpathint.com/index.php/Nova/Home-Theater-Bypass.html]

I suspect this approach may be applicable to other vendors as well. I'm not entirely sure this is the same thing that Joelz describes.

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