Preamp used in HT bypass - Signal degrade??

I don't want my home theater components to be in the chain when listening to two-channel music.  The home theater gear is on a completely different level (lower).  I use a nice Onkyo receiver for surround processing, but I doubt running the front channels through my LTA MicroZotl preamp is going to degrade the sound quality.

My previous conrad-johnson preamp had a true pass through.  The LTA really just fixes the volume on the input that is designated as Home Theater.  I set the channel levels with the Onkyo.  Works well enough for me.  

My focus has to do with quality of the Signal path being interfered with when listening to home theater.  Use a conrad-johnson preamp and the bypass function still has the signal going through all those capacitors according to people at CJ, obviously impact some hardware  while passing-through and that's the question here

I can't edit my comments after I post because I can't find all my errors initially. Anybody else have this problem?

@emergingsoul What are you using for a surround processor, amps, and speakers?  

Blame the preamp OR the ICs?