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How many of you guys use a HT processor ?

I was thinking about using a home theater processor as a 2 channel pre amp and was wondering how many of you use this set up with good results. I understand that it would be overkill specially using only digital as the only playback source, but I would think that the processor with it's built in DAC would save on space and ICs. My two top candidates would be Theta or EAD. I listen to all types of music but value acoustical (guitar) and vocals highly. I would appreciate your opinion.
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soliver
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I used a Theta Casa Nova for several years as my preamp/DAC/processor. The sound while it wasn't bad per say, I improved my sound by a huge margin when I added a 2 channel tube preamp from Granite and relagated the Theta to HT duties only.

It actually shocked me just how big of improvement it was, becausein order to finance the move I had to downgrade my digital source a bit, but that just didn't matter compared to getting the processor out of the music chain.
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