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(Just posted this in Vintage where I usually hang out, but thought I'd check with you guys too.)Any recommendations for the best way to run multiple sets of speakers at once? I'd like to play around with a "wall of sound" of my vintage speakers and am wondering the best way to go about this to prevent damage to speakers or amps/receivers.
Option A: Buy a speaker selector unit that accepts several sets of speakers and allows one or more pair to be played at a time. Monster has a unit that accepts six pairs and claims that all can be run at once safely. Any opinions? Any other selector units recommended?
Option B: Run my source (i.e. turntable or cd player) into Amp A, go tape out from Amp A to tape in Amp B, go tape out from Amp B to tape in Amp C, etc. Run one pair of speakers from each amp. Turn 'em all on at once but I'm afraid this might lead to (in the words of Journey) "when the lights go down in the city."
Anyone else have any experience running a wall of sound? I'm serious about this. (Unfortunately, Phil Spector is preoccupied at the moment.)
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where i work(not high end or anything), we just use the monster switcher boxes as previously suggested for speaker switching as well as for multiple speaker demos.
-j
Will certainly work and won't cause any serious problems. I'm assuming you already own the extra integrated amps, or this could get expensive too. If you're using different makes/models of amps and or speakers, exactly matching levels so all speakers are at the same output might be a little tedious, but certainly doable.Or, you could just buy a pair of Magneplanars! :)
impedance matching speaker hub that will let you play all the speakers at the same time but............unless you have either a)volume control for each pair of speakers or b)identical speakers..... the output from each pair will be different because of their differing sensitivities.multi speaker switchers with individual volume controls get very expensive very fast as you add more pairs of speakers.
If amp A has a pre-out not a "tape out" that might option B might work. You need a variable out unless you want/can control volume seperately on each amp.
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