What do I need?


Hi,

I have an amp & preamp for my audio system. I need to use the amp for my home theater now. I know the audio preamp won’t give me the channels & AV functions. Do I need an additional AV preamp? Something else. I’m NOT changing my current amp & preamp.  Thank you.

tochsii

Showing 1 response by kennyc

Sorry OP, I disagree, feedback essential so that we know that we aren’t wasting our time trying to help you.  You still haven’t answered “does your preamp have a HT pass through?”.

In laymans terms for a surround system you’ll need something to split the signal into channels (preamp-processor), provide amplification to each channel, followed by a speaker per channel.  A HT (home theatre) pass through on a 2-channel preamp allows use of your 2-channel speakers in your surround setup.

If your 2-channel preamp does NOT have a HT bypass feature, I suspect your only option is to directly wire your 2-channel speakers like the rest of the surround speakers from your surround-preamp-processor.