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I have 4 outdoor speakers around my pool. I would like to add a 5th into a Gazebo. I am running the necessary wires for this new speaker and thought that I would like the ability to shut this one speaker off while the stereo is on.
I went to radio shack and could not find anything to accomplish this. I asked the salesman there and he said I couldnt do it because the speakers are not powered (only power coming from the speaker wire itself) – I think he was nuts because then in the same breath he recommended I go with an AB Switch to have the ability to shut this one speaker off but it was obviously not weatherproof and it was about half the size of a shoe box.
Is there any sort of switch I can place in line to shut this one speaker off?
Radio Shack employs sales men, not technicians. In fairness, I do have to say that they do know what they’re talking about. Unfortunately, most of what they know just isn’t true. I had one tell me that fuses could be open, but there was no test to determine if a fuse might be shorted. (Tell ya what, slick, if it’s shorted, I can live with it, okay?)
Anyway, switches serve more purposes than routing line voltage to equipment. One of those purposes can very well be to interrupt the audio feed to a speaker. Unfortunately, a ready-made switch with connectors aren’t in much demand so they’re not really available, You’d have to build your own.
What I think he tried to talk you into was an A/V switch which consists of a video and L/R audio connectors. Kind of a waste of a lot of connections and, like you said, not weatherproof.
The other thing to keep in mind, though, is the changing impedance to your amplifier system by switching a speaker in and out of the system, unless you’re using a 70v speaker system.
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