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Reverse Speaker Selector

Im having trouble finding a good way to run two sources into one pair of speakers. I have a pair of Dahlquist DQ-10's and a HT reciever right now, but id like to run them through a better stereo set-up for 2-channel stuff. I found a few multi-zone speaker selectors that let you hook up two sources, but they all have a power limit on them (ie 50W, 100W). With the dahlquists id like to run quite a bit more than that into them so that doesnt work. If anyone knows of some way to do this any help is appreciated.
one_shot
one_shot OP
20 posts
 
Can i do this without pre-outs on the HT reciever?
geoffgarcia
92 posts
 
I'm confused.
You want to run 2 amps into one speaker???

Or you want to run 2 sources (cd player, dvd player, tv, radio) into one set of speakers?
one_shot OP
20 posts
 
I want to run a surround reciever into the speakers, as well as a 2 channel preamp/amp into the same speakers. I realize that this would be easy if the surround reciever had pre-outs and i could just that with a seperate power amp for the main channels.
ehart
215 posts
 
You don't have pre-outs on the HT receiver, eh?

russound.com or nilesaudio.com (I forget which) has a small device that takes speaker output and turns it into line level input -- for exactly that situation. I have never used this device, so I can't vouch for sound quality.

Still preferable to the switch at the speakers, I think, but you could check out the aforementioned 350wpc switch.

- eric
one_shot OP
20 posts
 
What about building a simple little switch box, like a pair of dpdt high amp switches in a little box? It seems like too simple of a solution....
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