What is a Home Theater Bypass

The home theater bypass feature allows you to use your two stereo speakers as your Front Left and Front Right speakers in a home theater setup as well. Basically you take the FR & FL line outputs of your HT receiver or SSP and run them into the HT bypass of your stereo preamp. Most HT bypass' are unity gain, which means that the volume control on your HT receiver or SSP will control the level of all of the speakers.

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John

It bypasses the volume control on the pre when you are listening to 5.1-7.1.

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......