How can I split a set of stereo speakers between two separate home entertainment receivers?
Question: I have too many audio components for one receiver but only want one set of speakers for both receivers.
Answers: I agree whole heartedly with Gen. However, if you're hell bent on having the tallest stack of rack gear on the block, Hook the Tape out of the least powerful receiver to the Tape in of the most powerful receiver. In this way you're only using the second receiver as a component switch.
My old system:
Laser disc player
CD player
DVD player
Cassette deck
Equalizer
Turntable
VCR
Receiver
My current system:
Ethernet media player
DVD player
Receiver
My current system does everything that my old system did...
What you want is a two or three way stereo switch like you can get at radioshack. Here is an example of one on ebay, http://cgi.ebay.com/Radio-Shack-Stereo-S...
These are normally used for one stereo and two or three sets of speakers, but you can hook it up backwards and use it for one set of speakers and two stereos. You just hook the speakers up to the input on the switch and hook the receivers up to the output on the switch. To switch stereos you just hit one of the buttons on the front.
Let's be serious, just choose the receiver which you enjoy the most (that provides your speakers the most clean power), purchase an input selector switch (such as that used to connect multiple videogame consoles to one AV input) to accomodate the additional input requirements and save yourself the trouble of switching between receivers. Even more, I recommend that you sell the receiver than you don't prefer to keep and begin your New Receiver Fund so that you can get a receiver that has more inputs for your equipment.
Something else, I wouldn't doubt it if you have redundant equipment that you could actually go without directly hooking up to your functioning system. Even better, if none of your equipment is redundant, I bet that there is equipment that you don't realistically use on a regular basis; something that you've only hooked up just in case...
Put useless equipment away (or sell it...because there is always someone looking for something that you already have...)! See if you can find a younger aspiring audiophile who would be overjoyed by the idea of owning your hardly ever used Kenwood CD Player that you only use when you want your Denon Carousel DVD Changer to rest...
Finally, if you insist on connecting your receivers to the same pair of speakers, you can use the previous poster's idea, however, be advised that speaker selector switches have wattage limitations and also have a tendency to introduce noise while decreasing dynamic response because of the additional relay required by the switching mechanism. Whether it is declared as negligible or not, the more interference that I can prevent from entering my audio output (on any level), the better.
Golden Rule: The less equipment between my source and my speakers, the less chance for signal coloration; the more accurate the sound reproduction!
Because of this rule, I recommend that you put your least used equipment on the newly purchased input selector switch, so that the equipment that you normally use has a solid/clean connection to the receiver while the effect of the input selector switch will go hardly noticed since it incorporates the least used equipment.
Hope that helps!!!
Happy listening!
Answers: I agree whole heartedly with Gen. However, if you're hell bent on having the tallest stack of rack gear on the block, Hook the Tape out of the least powerful receiver to the Tape in of the most powerful receiver. In this way you're only using the second receiver as a component switch.
My old system:
Laser disc player
CD player
DVD player
Cassette deck
Equalizer
Turntable
VCR
Receiver
My current system:
Ethernet media player
DVD player
Receiver
My current system does everything that my old system did...
What you want is a two or three way stereo switch like you can get at radioshack. Here is an example of one on ebay, http://cgi.ebay.com/Radio-Shack-Stereo-S...
These are normally used for one stereo and two or three sets of speakers, but you can hook it up backwards and use it for one set of speakers and two stereos. You just hook the speakers up to the input on the switch and hook the receivers up to the output on the switch. To switch stereos you just hit one of the buttons on the front.
Let's be serious, just choose the receiver which you enjoy the most (that provides your speakers the most clean power), purchase an input selector switch (such as that used to connect multiple videogame consoles to one AV input) to accomodate the additional input requirements and save yourself the trouble of switching between receivers. Even more, I recommend that you sell the receiver than you don't prefer to keep and begin your New Receiver Fund so that you can get a receiver that has more inputs for your equipment.
Something else, I wouldn't doubt it if you have redundant equipment that you could actually go without directly hooking up to your functioning system. Even better, if none of your equipment is redundant, I bet that there is equipment that you don't realistically use on a regular basis; something that you've only hooked up just in case...
Put useless equipment away (or sell it...because there is always someone looking for something that you already have...)! See if you can find a younger aspiring audiophile who would be overjoyed by the idea of owning your hardly ever used Kenwood CD Player that you only use when you want your Denon Carousel DVD Changer to rest...
Finally, if you insist on connecting your receivers to the same pair of speakers, you can use the previous poster's idea, however, be advised that speaker selector switches have wattage limitations and also have a tendency to introduce noise while decreasing dynamic response because of the additional relay required by the switching mechanism. Whether it is declared as negligible or not, the more interference that I can prevent from entering my audio output (on any level), the better.
Golden Rule: The less equipment between my source and my speakers, the less chance for signal coloration; the more accurate the sound reproduction!
Because of this rule, I recommend that you put your least used equipment on the newly purchased input selector switch, so that the equipment that you normally use has a solid/clean connection to the receiver while the effect of the input selector switch will go hardly noticed since it incorporates the least used equipment.
Hope that helps!!!
Happy listening!
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