Speaker wiring - mutliple locations, 1 jack

[Droff]

I'm building an HT and I'm framing in two different locations for my center, left and right channel speakers. I may go with a perf screen and I may not, this is why I have two different locations. I want to run speaker wire to both locations, but I will only be using one location at a time.
Can I run the wire to both locations from the single speaker jack (center, left, right) on the back of my receiver with no problem?
Thanks

 

[Mudcat]

You can do what ever you want, but.....

It sounds like you plan on moving the speakers around. You probably can do what you want, the way you want (i.e. just run the cables all connected to the same place at the source). But to alleviate any potential problems you can get two speaker switches, one for the mains, and one for the centers. Good ones with 5 ways are hard to find and expensive, cheaper ones with spring loaded clips start at $30. A few in the slightly less than $100 have screw terminals, older JAMO JSS4(6)-HP use to have 5 ways but current have spring clips or screw terminals.

Or:

For the left and right, you can connect the cables to the B connectors on the amp/HT receiver. When you go from location A to location B just remember to push the llittle buttons.



For the center channel, I'd recommend a four pole, 10 amp non-shorting (break before make) rotary switch ($70 plus).

 

[Droff]

Wow.
I hadn't heard of any of that stuff. Thanks for the input.