Which AV processors have an analog pass-thru?


Which AV processors have an analogue pass-thru? I want to use a seperate tube pre-amp when listening to two channel and need a AV processor that has a analogue pass-thru. I believe Simaudio has one but are there others?
rivercitylad

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I am confused why you would need this... why wouldn't you just plug the source into the preamp directly? I cannot think of an analog source that you would want to share between an AV processor and a preamp.
I guess my viewpoint is that if you are concerned about audio quality, you shouldn't be wiring your system this way. You should run the 2-channel output of your processor into an input on your preamp or a processor loop if available before running your preamp into an analog pass through input on your processor. This is a bigger pain to deal with because you need to set the position on your volume control for movies but my perspective is that the noticable loss from movies would be much less than from music using an analog passthrough.

The Krell HTS2 has an analog passthrough.