You’re making some fundamentally flawed assumptions here. Its not just avrs and pre amps. The signal flowing through everything is additionally impacted when flowing through everything else. No, home theater sound does not improve after additional processing... from anything.
This is a fundamental misunderstanding you are making, but it is a very common one a lot of people make. Nothing, no component, no wire, no tube, no circuit of any kind, can ever make anything better. The very best anything can do is to not harm the signal, to pass it unmolested.
Think of a window. Imagine your stereo or home theater as a window on the performance. How can a window make it any better? It can’t. The glass can be clean or dirty, colored or clear, flat or curved and distorted. The very best it can possibly be is an open frame with no glass no nothing just air. Its impossible for the window to improve anything, because the minute it does that its no longer a window. Its a microscope, or a telescope, or anything other than a window.
Got it? So the avr does way more harm or damage, the tube pre amp does way less, but never at any point does anything ever get any better. That’s why its so important to get the G-D avr out of the room. The massive harm it does can never be made right.
This is a fundamental misunderstanding you are making, but it is a very common one a lot of people make. Nothing, no component, no wire, no tube, no circuit of any kind, can ever make anything better. The very best anything can do is to not harm the signal, to pass it unmolested.
Think of a window. Imagine your stereo or home theater as a window on the performance. How can a window make it any better? It can’t. The glass can be clean or dirty, colored or clear, flat or curved and distorted. The very best it can possibly be is an open frame with no glass no nothing just air. Its impossible for the window to improve anything, because the minute it does that its no longer a window. Its a microscope, or a telescope, or anything other than a window.
Got it? So the avr does way more harm or damage, the tube pre amp does way less, but never at any point does anything ever get any better. That’s why its so important to get the G-D avr out of the room. The massive harm it does can never be made right.