I'm looking for any methods that would allow me to easily switch L&R speaker connections to 4 speakers based on my listening position. Having 4 speakers, I basically need to be able to swap the left & right outputs between two of the speakers.

I have had no luck finding any receivers/amplifiers/switches/routers that can do this. I have searched all over google, and cant find any device that would allow me to do this easily. Maybe I'm missing it... ?

I have attached a graphic example of what I'm attempting.

i think you could do it with a regular speaker switcher as ONLY two of the speakers connections actually change. thus you could hard wire the top left and bottom r speakers and, using the same source, just use the switcher for the other two speakers, wired with opposite polarity.

I don't understand your diagram. Please explain further. You are listening only in two-channel? Or surround? I am very confused by your picture it doesn't make sense. You are rotating your listening orientation 90 degrees or what?

Yes, I am listening in 2 channels and rotating my position by 90 degrees.

Why the 4th speaker? It would seem that speaker is never being utilized?

Yeah, if it's just two channel, the one in the lower left isn't being used in either position. Unless there is something more to the setup you didn't mention.

Something like this came up before.
What I would do is get one Neutrik 8 pole in-line Speakon connector and two Neutrik 8 pole chassis Speakon connectors. Wire the speakers to the in-line connector, wire the amp output to both chassis connectors but in different patterns. Plug in to the patter you want. May not look great, but the total connector cost is under $25.

In any case, with just three speakers being utilized, two oriented one way and then two oriented the other with one being used in both but as a different channel, you can use a simple A/B speaker selector. You'll just have the one speaker wired to two different outputs. Simple. If you're trying to do something else, which given your unwillingness to actually explain with any detail what you're doing, then I don't know.

We aren't mind-readers.

What I'm attempting really isn't that involved.

I have 2 channels of audio.
I have 4 speakers.
I want to be able to swap the signal between 2 of the speakers easily.

I do appreciate the suggestions.


I had not considered that one of the speakers was not needed. My thought was to keep the speakers configured symmetrically - so that I dont have sound coming from one corner of the room and not the other... but I'll give it a shot.

To put more perspective on this, I have a listening position for watching TV, and another while playing a synth. I just wanted to keep the L&R orientation correct based on where I am sitting.

Two channel audio assumes two speakers connected. Are you trying to connect all 4 together in some kind of party-like mode? I would highly recommend against that if you care about imaging.

In any case, a simple A/B switch would do what you wanted in both cases. You will need to make sure it's only an A or B switch, not one that would allow you accidentally to engage both at once because of the one speaker that would be connected to two different outputs, and both channels of the amp could "see" each other and blow up.