Sharing a subwoofer with 2CH and HTs rigs!


Has anyone used an RCA switch box or passive pre to handle two RCA pre-outs from different amps to feed the LFE on a single powered Sub? Looking at the schiit SYS as an option. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Flynn
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I had use a Niles SAS-1 as a switcher to select output between a AVR sub-out and a active low pass xover from a two channel preamp to a subwoofer via RCA cable without any problem. Actually, any line level source switcher/selector can get the job done, and I believe if both source are turned on will not causing any problem as long as only one source is selected and connect to the sub input.
The only possible problem I can think of is most of the RCA switcher/selector only switching "+" side and the ground connection remain connected. In some cases, it will introduce ground loop hum. The solution is modify a xlr switcher to rca so both "+" and ground connection can be switched on or off.
Another possible problem is "cross-talk", it can be overcome by simply turn off the unwanted source.
Thanks everyone. A sound engineer I know thinks it won’t be a problem. I’ll be trying it later today and will post the results in case anyone else is interested. I searched everywhere I could think of on the internet and couldn’t find anything!