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RE: Do you have one listening room or two?

"I might like to get a pre amp that would work in a tube system and also work to feed the signal into the AVR as a starting point."

"Open to suggestions for a pre amp that would be suitable. (my speakers are 8ohm) The TT is a MM cartridge."

Your 8 ohm speakers won't have any impact on your preamp and any tube amplifier that I can think of will be able to drive an 8 ohm load.

All the preamps that I can think of should work with a "tube system" (meaning tube amp?), some would probably work better than others due to input & output impedances, & as far as integrating that with an AVR, your 2 channel preamp with a phono stage (whether it is SS or tube) will only be inputting the signal into your 2 channel tube amp.

I haven't done HT since the days of VHS & Dolby Prologic, but if I remember correctly, with separates (which included a tube 2 channel preamp with phono stage) your audio-video source would go through a processor which would route some of the signal into one of the L & R line stage inputs of your pre (which would then go to your tube amp & then ultimately into your L & R main speakers), & then the processor would send the remaining AV inputs into still ANOTHER multichannel (probably SS) amp.

That would be one way to do it.

Or, the way I did it, way back when, was to buy an AV preamp & my first tube amp & two more solid state amps for my center channel & my rear speakers. The problem here, probably, would be that you would need to find an AV preamp with a phono stage. (My B&K did not have that.)

Now with all that typed, as HT evolved from Dolby Prologic & became more & more sophisticated, I ultimately gave up on audio-video & focused only on developing my 2 channel stereo system.

I wouldn't doubt that the equipment exists to meet all your objectives, but it is going to cost considerably more.



Edits: 10/12/20 10/12/20 10/12/20 10/12/20 10/13/20

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