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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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.

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.

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.

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...

 

@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.

Out doors I have always ran SOOW. You’ll never hear the difference until you roll over the cable a couple of times with 300lb subs on casters. It will tear up a standard anything other than 600vac SOOW in armor. Some of my 50 footers double (4/12) bass cable are 35-40 years old. You can just about hit them with a lawn mower and it will not only keep working, it will still sound good too. 99.999 pure copper, fine stand, very flexible. Heavy copper works on everything.

I roll out heavy speakers in the summer and I have a few outdoor speakers.. To roll out plug in and listen to music under 5 minutes. They are stupid proof speakers too.