I used to have a tube integrated amp as well as a Pioneer Elite surround receiver in my system. For a simple solution so that both amps can share the main speakers, I simply had a set of speaker wires running from each amp with banana plugs. The unused set remaining coiled behind each main. When I wanted to listen to the tube amp, I just swapped out the speaker wire at the speaker taps. Only took a minute and was good to go.
2 Ch/HT integration-need help from experts
Hello,
I am planning to build 5.1 Home theater on top of existing 2 ch stereo.
My problem is that I don't have a preamp, so HT bypass (in a preamp) is currently not my option.
My 2 channel system consists of music server equipped with lynx aes16 audio card (as a transport), DCS Scarlatti stack (upsampler, DAC and clock) which feeds Krell Evo 400's. Most downstream is Wilson Sasha. Oppo bdp-93 is hooked up to the upsampler for movie.
I really prefer i) not to have a preamp (I like the dynamics of Scalartti without it) and ii) to keep high resolution audio (True HD and DTS Master) from the blu-ray player. Of course, I don't really want to rewire whenever watching movie:)
I can live with two volume controls (from Scarlatti DAC and from any processor I am going to buy).
Would you have any recommendations? It doesn't need to be fancy, simple solutions such as HDMI/Toslink splitter (so that it can feed 2 channel to Scalatti DAC and others to the processor) would be greatly appreciated as long as it does not hurt 2 channel performance. I doubt about high resolution audio which passes toslink even 2 channel though.
It will also be appreciated if you could point out something I am missing such as OPPO/DCS-software setup to solve my problem.
Thank you!
*English is not my first language; so please understand if my description above has errors or is inefficient.
I am planning to build 5.1 Home theater on top of existing 2 ch stereo.
My problem is that I don't have a preamp, so HT bypass (in a preamp) is currently not my option.
My 2 channel system consists of music server equipped with lynx aes16 audio card (as a transport), DCS Scarlatti stack (upsampler, DAC and clock) which feeds Krell Evo 400's. Most downstream is Wilson Sasha. Oppo bdp-93 is hooked up to the upsampler for movie.
I really prefer i) not to have a preamp (I like the dynamics of Scalartti without it) and ii) to keep high resolution audio (True HD and DTS Master) from the blu-ray player. Of course, I don't really want to rewire whenever watching movie:)
I can live with two volume controls (from Scarlatti DAC and from any processor I am going to buy).
Would you have any recommendations? It doesn't need to be fancy, simple solutions such as HDMI/Toslink splitter (so that it can feed 2 channel to Scalatti DAC and others to the processor) would be greatly appreciated as long as it does not hurt 2 channel performance. I doubt about high resolution audio which passes toslink even 2 channel though.
It will also be appreciated if you could point out something I am missing such as OPPO/DCS-software setup to solve my problem.
Thank you!
*English is not my first language; so please understand if my description above has errors or is inefficient.