Here's a bit of a technical question.... If I set up two amps with the high quality DECWare switch (https://www.decware.com/newsite/ZSB.html), is there any downside or, worse, harm that could come from having two sets of speaker wire going to the Omegas? That would be one pair from each amp. Only one amp would be active at any given time though. Interested more in technical knowledge rather than "better to be careful", or "it's not a pure approach", and the like .
It would be a good way to let the tube amp stay idle and not rack up mucho hours on prized tubes when music is more background than active listening.
I should probably shoot Louis an email, too.
Thanks.......Pete
Hey!
Wait, I'm trying to understand what are you trying to do here. So, you have two amps and you want to use them with your speaker?
That box is a selector that can be configured as passive pre with volume control with two output. So, you want to feed both of your amps with that box and switch between the two amps you have with that box?
OK, if you are going to use that box as your passive pre then that's fine. But if you already have a preamp then adding that box and extra cables will likely have some effect on the sound, how much degradation you can hear is depend on your amp and speaker. But that would solve the problem feeding and select between two amps.
....is there any downside or, worse, harm that could come from having two sets of speaker wire going to the Omegas? That would be one pair from each amp. Only one amp would be active at any given time though.
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OK, let me get this straight, you want to run speaker cables from both amps to your speaker and leave them connected to your speakers even when one amp is not on?
Am I understand this right? If so, DO NOT do it! You can damage your amps by doing this!
Like you I have two amps. Both are SET amps. And when I want to switch between the two , I have to disconnect the RCA and speaker cables from one amp and move them to the other amps. Luckily it is not that hard for me since both of my amps are easily accessible.
I hope this help and maybe other with more expertise can comment on this.
Buddy