Todd The Vinyl Junkie

A power amplifier is a device that can supply power to one or more than one speaker. In spite of this feature, it lacks other additional features such as radio reception, input switching, and audio/video processing capabilities. The most important and probably the only control that you may find in a simple or a stereo tube power amplifier is the master gain (volume) control.  Connecting It To a Home Theater Home theater receivers come with their built-in amplifiers that can power speakers. There are also some receivers that can offer a set of pre-amp outputs, having the capability to connect to one, or more power amps to increase power output. Keeping that in mind, it must be noted that in such setup systems, the receiver's own internal amplifiers are bypassed. This technically means that you cannot use the built-in amplifiers of a home theater system to give power to the same channels simultaneously. In addition to that, if your home theater receiver has Multi-Zone ca