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share 2 CH speakers with HT set up or use separate speakers for front end of a 7.2 HT?

My TV/Listening room currently has 2 separate front ends.
One for music and one for HT/TV.
The 2 channel set up is a Lyngdorf TDAI 2170 into Dali Helicon 800s towers.
The HT set up is Denon X3500 into an AV1213 front end utilizing book shelf speakers for L&R

The room is only 13’ wide and the speakers are kind of close to each other.
I’m wondering if I should ditch the cheaper AV123 book shelf speakers from the HT set up and use some kind of switcher, as long as it doesn’t degrade the signal I get out of my Lyngdorf / Dali 2 CH set up.

I was switching speaker cables for a while (with just one set of speakers for the front end) and I found myself not using my 2 channel set up much because the cable swap was a pain.

I'm sure the Lyngdorf has a HT bypass but my brain is having a hard time figuring out what that actually is, even after reading a few blogs on it,  or if I should be using it. 

What do you folks think?
flavo

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emergingsoul
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Hi,
when in stereo bypass mode, can you still see tv video on tv, absent sound of course, and can you change channels? If yes, is functionality quick and convenient?  Denon has a video select function, does it continue to work?

i like seeing video when listening to stereo and can do this with marantz avr, when I use a streamer.  I press the cd source button to switch to streamer and channel being viewed stays on.
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