Sacrilegious- speaker cable switchboxes

Hi,

Years ago I had some speakers in the kitchen connected to the amps output with stacking plugs with a double pole light switch in series, so when it was on the speakers where in parallel with the main ones. It worked o/k that's just about the least invasive way to add extra speakers but don't add more than one pair because the impedance might get to low.

pete

Michael: Doesn't this mean you're running both amps at once? what do you do if you just want to hear one set of speakers and not the other? This actually could work for me as I have a spare old style 250 I could use. Need a way to turn them on and off though. Unplugging the speakers would be too much of a pain.

Mad, Bad and Dangerous: A double pole switch sounds interesting, but it's gotta have an adverse effect on the sound quality. It's certianly cheap enough but you've gotta be adding extra resistance to the circuit with the brass contacts. A mercury switch, if I could find one, might work better, but it's still going to mess things up.

Isn't there anything out there better than a niles switchbox?

Arthur Bye

Hi,

Well the switch is only in the extension speaker circuit so it shouldn't affect the main speakers, and you could use a 45 Amp shower switch that will handle the power no problem, it will cope with a 8 or 9 kW shower so it must have a very low resistance, or it would get very hot with 36 Amps flowing through it. I now use a NAIT 1 for the kitchen fed from my main system, but then you have a long signal cable to worry about!!!.

pete

Michael:

Thanks for the information. It sounds like it can do what I'm looking for. Think I'll try out the Niles switchbox setup and hope that the sound degradation is minimal.

Arthur Bye