should audio connection go through TV?

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Here is my dilemma- new TV, new DVD player, both Toshiba, neither one expensive. Very satisfied with TV picture and sound. The Toshiba 4960 also plays SACD and DVD-Audio, and audio was one reason I bought it.
There are the multichannel audio outputs, but I am stereo only. There is one set of stereo audio outputs from the DVD player. Right now, I have it hooked to TV in, then TV audio out to the stereo system. Sounds pretty bad, I assume I am inserting some cheap TV audio amplification into the chain.
I could connect DVD audio directly to my preamp, but I don't want to do that- it's a tube preamp and I don't want to have to power on everything for every DVD and use up tube life.
The logical solution would be a splitter or a switch. Can I split the audio and send one connector to TV and the other to preamp? Or is there some sort of interaction which would make a switch more desirable. Is there any decent splitter or switch that will not degrade the audio quality?
Thanks.

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Topic - should audio connection go through TV? - tunenut 10:47:31 09/22/04 (7)

answer - Joe Murphy Jr 22:00:52 09/22/04 (3)

thanks it works - tunenut 17:05:39 09/23/04 (2)

quality - Joe Murphy Jr 06:01:37 09/24/04 (1)

didn't exactly expect much - tunenut 09:52:16 09/24/04 (0)

Re: should audio connection go through TV? - Kal Rubinson 10:59:28 09/22/04 (2)

I don't know - tunenut 12:45:29 09/22/04 (1)

Re: I don't know - Kal Rubinson 13:57:21 09/22/04 (0)

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