Speaker selector that won't degrade sound


Is there such a thing?

Seems like many of them have relays or protection devices in them that will affect sound quality.  Could I make one?  

The reason for one is that my system is now a hybrid, my 2 channel setup and HT setup use the same front speakers.  Have an Onkyo AVR with no pre-outs and a Schiit Freya+ as my 2 channel preamp, so no way of doing a HT bypass so I want to use a speaker selector and have both feed into the selector.  Right now I literally swap the speaker cables at the back of the speaker.

 

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imhififan

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Theoretically, all switches will degrade sound quality, only you can determine if you can hear the difference in your system.

My suggestion is try one and find out

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@imhififan that's actually the switch I have, I'll give it a shot.  What's is depressing is that I have all this expensive speaker cable and then I'm going thru THAT!  Kind of a waste I think.

@tump350 I gave up on the old school way of having outdoor speakers being part of my main setup.  Nowadays for outdoor music I'm using my phone to select and control music, so I went with outdoor Bluetooth speakers.

Much easier.

The AVR is for home theater use only.  I use my 2 channel setup speakers as the HT fronts also.

My 2 channel setup is the Freya+ and a Cherry amp.

@imhififan that's the direction I will probably go but I'm going to try this speaker switch I have to see if I notice a big difference in sound.

If so then I think I'll try to build my own so that I can have control over the internal wiring, soldering etc.  You can get blank boxes that you can mount it all into.