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.
@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. |
Guys, thanks for the answers to the outdoor speaker question. Seems that from the above answers to the speaker/amp switch box question, it looks like I will have to just set up a streamer and a dac outdoors with powered full time outdoor speakers. So far the Pro-ject Stream Box S2 Ultra and Pre-Box S2 Digital are great. Just need to find decent powered outdoor speakers. Any recommendations? Although I did see advertised somewhere a month or so ago a very expensive outdoor speaker that was a streamer-dac-amp-volume control-speaker combined. But at $4k a speaker, no thanks. Perhaps a grand in total, but I have not yet found one at that price point. |
