Question On Connecting Multiple Sources to TV, DAC, and Power Amp

As others have said, get one device for home theater and another for two channel stereo.  The amplification in most AVR units is not very good.  Your best bet is to get a "processor" (no amplification) and a two channel preamp that has home theater bypass and use a separate amp(s) for your main speakers.  You could get an AVR that has a preamp option that allows you to bypass the amps in the AVR for your main speakers and use the AVR to power your surround speakers.

This allows you to listen to two channel music without having any of the home theater components in the chain and to share your amp(s) with the home theater processer when using it.

Thanks for the additional input. My LR has 12' ceilings with a cookie cutter center that rises another 2'. I don't plan on going into the attic and installing a multi-channel surround speaker system. Two speakers up front and perhaps a sub if needed.

I want a setup that sounds decent for the TV with more focus on the music (phono, CD, and lossless player, no mp3's.).

Good point on the processor. I'll have to check if these processors with bypass are true bypass or switched through circuitry.

OK, this is getting better. Thank you all for the input and yes, correct me if I go astray.

I think you are trying to do 3 different things.  Have a DAC/Amplifier system, a stereo, and a TV system.  Pick 2 or live with a messy complex system.

You have such a large number of sources to figure out how to attempt to course through the TV. Get a decent AVR — I'd energetically suggest Yamaha — that has the elements/inputs you want and improve, high-esteem speakers from Wharfedale, Elac, and so on and you'll be light a long time in front of where you are presently on each level. You simply plug every one of your sources into the AVR, interface it by means of one HDMI association with your TV and it will deal with steering all your different sources to the TV through the single HDMI association. Simply my $0.02 FWIW, and good luck.

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OP doesn't mention a streamer nor what the primary source for music might be.  I suggest analog from the disc player go directly to the preamp as well as HDMI to a processor or AVR.  That assumes the disc player has a decent DAC. The TT would continue to go directly to the preamp.  If OP's preamp has a mode that by-passes its volume control, analog LR from the processor or AVR also goes to the preamp.  And analog from a future streamer would go directly to the preamp.

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