Sharing Front Speakers and Subwoofer with two receivers

[Klipschedule]

Hi All,

I have been looking for a solution to share the front LR speakers and the subwoofer with a 9.1 receiver for movie watching and 2.1 channel stereo receiver for music.  I want to do this since the stereo amp is better sounding for music than the 9.1 receiver.

 

has anyone have such setup and what is the best way to switch between the receivers?

 

Are there any products in market that takes two sets of two analog signal (L & R) and one digital signal (LFE) as inputs and passes one set as output?

 

is there an automatic way to do it for e.g using 12v trigger or remote controlled?

[Ceptorman]

Welcome, great name. Yes there are a few ways to do this. I use a Niles SPK-1 speaker switch, less than $100 usd. It is triggered, two channels from two sources go in (L/R.....L/R) and one pair of wires come out. One of your amps (the one with the 12v trigger) has priority. Say your listening to 2 channel, but now the family wants to watch a movie, turn on the AVR (trigger SPK-1) and the AVR now takes over and uses the same towers.

 

One drawback.......Unless one of the amps has a HT bypass (that allows the sub out to pass through it without being on) you will need to send a sub out signal from each amp to the sub. When you're listening to 2 channel then switch to AVR, the Niles does not shut off the 2 channel amp, your sub will receive both inputs, not good. You MUST turn the 2 channel amp off when turning the AVR on.

[Klipschedule]

Thanks very much for the insights.  While looking up for Niles SPK-1, found there is also SAS-1 which has both speaker level switching and RCA line level switching.  That would be perfect but couldn't find any dealers carrying them.  Only ones found are in ebay used.  Any others have anything similar to Niles?