@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.
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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No. There is no such thing. I tried a high grade over built hard wired switch box… still notably degraded the sound. Pretty much why high end preamps don’t have tone controls and all sorts of functions. Touch the signal as little as possible for the best sound. The “straight wire” principal. I have been pursuing high end audio for fifty years… basic principle. No frills, short as possible gives the best sound, no exceptions.
one of the thing you have to watch out for is that, sometimes one thing will not be obviously detrimental to the sound… but they are additive. So, things you shouldn’t do… maybe pile up wires together, add a switch box, and use a regular outlet. Perhaps you can’t hear one… but the combination has a big toll. So it is important to care and tweak each aspect… ever if you can’t hear it immediately. It takes years to develop listening skills to identify really small differences. But in aggregate they make all the difference in the overall sound. |
Why not build one using high quality switches with silver contacts like the NKK S822 and high quality binding posts from WBT, Cardas or Furutech...
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