"HT Bypass" = bypassing your home theater! - lol
No, actually, the bypass means bypassing your preamp functions for those channels that are output for HT dubties!
What happens is that your volume, tone controls, etc are bypassed in that input when you select it! Any signal being sent to that input goes directly through to your ampilfier, without any pre-amplification from pre/pro. Basically, you run your L/R main speaker outputs from your AV pre/pro or receiver to that input, when you want to add a multi-channel HT system, looping through your 2 channel pre. It's rather simple really.
It allows you to keep your 2 channel system setup as normal. And when you want to run your multi-channel ht processor, you can simply use the 2 channel amp setup you are already using for your L/R channels, without having to disconnect the 2 channel setup - because you still need the l/R channels from your 5 or 7 channel av processor, and your just simply using the mains and amp set up you have going to 2 channel pre and dubties, for your main l/r's of your theater! It's just a convenience feature, that's all.
If your 2 channel preamp didn't have this (actually Auxilary does the same, as would "tape-in"), you would likely have to disconnect the 2 channel preamp from your 2 channel amp, and reconnect it to your AV pre/pro when you payed movies - which is assuming you still are trying to use your stereo speakers as part of the HT system.
No, actually, the bypass means bypassing your preamp functions for those channels that are output for HT dubties!
What happens is that your volume, tone controls, etc are bypassed in that input when you select it! Any signal being sent to that input goes directly through to your ampilfier, without any pre-amplification from pre/pro. Basically, you run your L/R main speaker outputs from your AV pre/pro or receiver to that input, when you want to add a multi-channel HT system, looping through your 2 channel pre. It's rather simple really.
It allows you to keep your 2 channel system setup as normal. And when you want to run your multi-channel ht processor, you can simply use the 2 channel amp setup you are already using for your L/R channels, without having to disconnect the 2 channel setup - because you still need the l/R channels from your 5 or 7 channel av processor, and your just simply using the mains and amp set up you have going to 2 channel pre and dubties, for your main l/r's of your theater! It's just a convenience feature, that's all.
If your 2 channel preamp didn't have this (actually Auxilary does the same, as would "tape-in"), you would likely have to disconnect the 2 channel preamp from your 2 channel amp, and reconnect it to your AV pre/pro when you payed movies - which is assuming you still are trying to use your stereo speakers as part of the HT system.