10 Feb
2014
10 Feb
'14
4:59 p.m.
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 6:08 AM, Shani Hadiyanto Pribadi
<shanipribadi(a)gmx.net> wrote:
Now this is where I lost you, how many speakers do you
have exactly,
and how many amps for them? Doesn't it mean that you need as many amps
for each speakers you have if you ditch the speaker selector?
If indeed you want to control it like that then you also need a soundcard
with as many output channels as the number of power amps channels for
the speakers.
I currently have three pairs of speakers, and intend to add a fourth
as soon as this is all squared away (the wiring for the fourth is
already in place, I just need to connect them to speakers). The
existing three pairs of speakers are the in-ceiling speakers I've been
talking about. The fourth pair of speakers will be traditional
full-range speakers. That's one reason why I want to send the
full-range signal to the power amp (and in turn the speaker selector).
I think you might be confusing the AVR with the speaker selector; they
are two different devices. The speaker selector is a passive device
(it doesn't require external power). It simply allows an amplified,
speaker-level signal to be multiplexed. Without such a device, I
would indeed need to have a 1:1 power amp to speaker pair ratio.
Here's a concrete example of a speaker selector, Monoprice product 8229:
http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=109&cp_id=10903&cs_id=1090305…