Channel Islands D-100 Amplifier

I thought the idea with a HT pass-through is that when the HT input is selected the AV receiver's volume control is used - the preamp's volume dial would not need to move. Once you switched from the HT input to a different input, such as CD, the preamp's volume control would kick back in. Throughout the process they'd be no need for the preamp's volume to be on full.

Gunbei, I think my future is now.
When a pair of small mono amps run this cool, cost so little, do so much, it makes me take note of the price/performance issue in a major way.
I can't wait to see what the D-200's will do.

Rx8man, that's awesome! Let us know how they shape up for you. What will you be comparing them to?

Well, please don't laugh, a pair of highly pro-modded B&K M-200 monos that served me faithfully for ten years !
Yeah, I keep good stuff around for a while, so it really takes a substantial, favorable improvement to make me move !
I've had dozens of golden-ear audiophiles (dealers too) audition my system on more than one occasion to attest to the sound quality, they were highly impressed.

In reply to Bailey...
It all depends on how you want to set up the system(s).

The new preamp will have 2 pair of outputs, what we could do is make one pair a standard variable output through the volume control, and the 2nd pair could be configured for "bypass"(taken from the input selector switch before the volume control)or could be a 2nd pair of variable outputs(after the volume control). This would most likely be done by a set of internal jumpers.