What is a Home Theater Bypass


Looking at preamps and see home theater bypass listed as a feature. Why have this?
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It works as a unity gain for your preamp so that volume when watching movies/TV is set by your pre/pro and not the preamp. This avoids the situation where the last time you were rocking out to your 2 ch system and shut the system down with the volume way up and the next time you go to turn on your HT, and the combination of the two volumes blows out your speakers. The bypass kills the volume on the preamp so that volume is controlled only by the pre/pro. Essential feature when incorporating HT and 2 ch. You can find unity gain on the preamp and set it there before turning on the pre/pro, but that one time you forget......