brooks44 wrote:

i dont believe there is a good quality switch. and if you switch your
stereo only power amp out, then what powers the R and L main speakers.
the only way i figure it, is that you have the main R and L speakers
connected to both your stereo amp, and your Surround theatre, which in my
opinion corrupts your stereo listening.
brooks

You do not understand what was said. The switch was not between the
power amps and the speakers. The switch is before the stereo power amp.
In other words, he is switching different signals for the stereo power
amp to amplify.

And yes, it is easy to switch signals into a power amp without signal
degradation. All preamps have such switches.

"David E. Bath" wrote in message
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"brooks44" writes:
I have a hi end system which consists of a hovland preamp, CJ prem 140
amp,
ML sl-3's for speakers, and I use a CD player, turntable, FM tuner, and
sat
radio receiver etc. I would like to incorporate surround sound for my
movie watching. I was hoping to not corrupt my audio system. I was
thinking of getting a center channel and 2 surround speakers, and using a
decent 5.1 reciever with pre amp outs, hooking the center and rears to
the
receiver, the preamp outs to my hovland tape loop, and my dvd player into
the receiver. I would use the volume on the hovland for the main R and
L
and the volume on the reciever for the rest, and match them all up. I
have
a sub as well. will this hook up work?????

Yes, I did something very similar with excellent results. One
difference is that I used a good quality audio switch to choose
whether the receiver or the stereo preamp was driving the stereo power
amp. I added the switch so that I no long had to set the appropriate
volume level on the stereo preamp, or even turn the preamp on at all
when using the surround system.