tube amp for home theater AND 2 channel?

Get a tube headphone amp

Lots of modern pres have a HT bypass mode

Carver Black Magic 25. $1995. 5 year warranty and very generous return policy if you don’t like it within 30 days. Plus 5 year trade up value if you want more power..

Sound really good paired with Tekton Double Impact SE (bi amped) with A760x SS for lower.

I’m running tube amp 2 channel I’m also running 7.2 channel HT and the tube amp powers the 2 front channels. I just run pre-out from my HT receiver to a spare input on my tube amp. This is the basic premise of HT bypass.

I really don’t see why any tube amp user would do anything different.

Jerry

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Just if one is starting from scratch, then one may prefer a tube preamp and then some other (SS) amp for what is predominantly HT in terms ofd hours/day or hours/year.
Or buy a spare set of tubes up front.
Or get a tube amp that is friendly on tubes.

But those speakers should not be too power hungry.

I’m running tube amp 2 channel I’m also running 7.2 channel HT and the tube amp powers the 2 front channels. I just run pre-out from my HT reciever to a spare input on my tube amp. This is the basic premise of HT bypass.

I really don’t see why any tube amp user would do anything different.

Jerry

Using a tube amp for TV and HT is utter madness and a waste of tubes IMHO.  You don’t need tubes to watch friggin’ TV.  If I’m you, I’d use solid state stuff for watching movies/TV and just switch in the tube stuff when I wanna get serious about listening to 2 channel.  There are some tube preamps I think from VAC, Backert, and Rogue that may deactivate the tubes when in HT bypass mode,but they’re few and far between and will get you some tube magic, but the tube amp thing is a non starter for me.  Burning amp tubes for TV?  No way!!!  Best of luck. 

A 2K tube amp hooked up to an AVR, isn't going to be that great. Burning expensive power tubes for long hours isn't going to be so great either. If I was working with a limited budget and I was driving LaScalas, I would try my Rogue Sphinx. It just has preamp tubes that will last a long time and a class D power section. It's tone would sound good with the LaScalas. Best of both designs in one package. 

Or run a tube preamp, and SS amps.

The HT side can bypass the preamp on some tube preamps, or at least if the preamp is on, then those preamp tubes last a lot longer than power tubes.