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I just had a thought while posting about some speaker options in another forum. Someone tell me if this would be a good or bad idea!
Would it be all right to use a speaker selector to switch between surround modes? For instance, I have a Onkyo 707, and it has a lot of listening modes. As I've found with other receivers, some modes sound better for some movies than others, and I'm sure that's prob. the case with this receiver.
I obviously can't hook speakers for all the modes directly to the AVR, but I could run different pairs to a selector, and choose which set I'm going to be using for a particular sound mode.
Now obviously I wouldn't try to do something stupid, like have all extra pairs running simultaneously. Just one pair, for one surround mode. I'm really only seeing 2 potential problems with this idea. First would be, it would most definitely mess with the Audyssey calibration, and second, the few selectors I've looked at run at a 4 ohm load, so I would more than likely have to run an external amp. That way the AVR isn't seeing a 4 ohm load on just those 2 channels.
Any thoughts or ideas?
Brent
Would it be all right to use a speaker selector to switch between surround modes? For instance, I have a Onkyo 707, and it has a lot of listening modes. As I've found with other receivers, some modes sound better for some movies than others, and I'm sure that's prob. the case with this receiver.
I obviously can't hook speakers for all the modes directly to the AVR, but I could run different pairs to a selector, and choose which set I'm going to be using for a particular sound mode.
Now obviously I wouldn't try to do something stupid, like have all extra pairs running simultaneously. Just one pair, for one surround mode. I'm really only seeing 2 potential problems with this idea. First would be, it would most definitely mess with the Audyssey calibration, and second, the few selectors I've looked at run at a 4 ohm load, so I would more than likely have to run an external amp. That way the AVR isn't seeing a 4 ohm load on just those 2 channels.
Any thoughts or ideas?
Brent