Anybody use a stereo amp with their ht? And ..


Noticed that ht sound quality is diminished when having main speaker cables routed thru the stereo amp via ht bypass setup?

I say this cause I hooked up a stereo preamp and noticed that ht sounds are diminished after signal flows thru the stereo preamp.  Anybody see this too?  Stereo did sound a lot better since it no longer was connected to the avr.  Guess you can’t get ht and hifi great sq when linking ht and hifi systems together.  
Thanks.
jumia

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For stereo, balanced analog from an Ayre QX-5 Twenty (Roon endpoint) or DX-5 DSD (disc player) goes directly to the KX-5 Twenty preamp and VX-5 Twenty amp.

For surround and HT, HDMI audio from the DX-5 DSD goes to a Bryston SP3 processor; analog front LR from the SP3 goes to a by-pass input of the KX-5; analog surround goes to a pair of NAD DC amps.

HDMI video goes from the DX-5 DSD to a Sony projector.