What about those speaker selectors?

wingzam
wingzam Posts: 201
edited February 2010 in Speakers
Was thinking about picking up a speaker selector so went to ebay and found 8 pages of them!
This would seem to suggest,and partly verify my suspicion that a speaker selector downgrades sound quality.
Your thoughts on this please -
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  • erniejade
    erniejade Posts: 6,321
    edited February 2010
    I have heard that most of them change the sound some. I do have a Adcom one at home but, I have never tried it. Some of them I have seen are not rated for big power so be carefull on the power rating on them.

    I am interested in what others thing on this.
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  • wingzam
    wingzam Posts: 201
    edited February 2010
    And i'd be running 400+watts at 4ohms...
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  • PSOVLSK
    PSOVLSK Posts: 5,235
    edited February 2010
    wingzam wrote: »
    And i'd be running 400+watts at 4ohms...

    I think this takes a speaker selector away as an option for you. If I'm wrong, I may be buying one myself.
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,249
    edited February 2010
    I have a Niles speaker selector switch if any of you are interested. I bought it for an experiment some time back and never got around to using it. First $50.00 plus shipping gets it.
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  • wingzam
    wingzam Posts: 201
    edited February 2010
    PSOVLSK wrote: »
    I think this takes a speaker selector away as an option for you. If I'm wrong, I may be buying one myself.

    Maybe someone will chime in with the selector we're looking for.
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  • kcoc321
    kcoc321 Posts: 1,788
    edited February 2010
    treitz3 wrote: »
    I have a Niles speaker selector switch if any of you are interested. I bought it for an experiment some time back and never got around to using it. First $50.00 plus shipping gets it.

    Niles makes good ones. Which model is yours Treitz?
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  • curved
    curved Posts: 664
    edited February 2010
    wingzam wrote: »
    And i'd be running 400+watts at 4ohms...

    What amp are you running?

    Niles has a few different selectors out there.
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  • wingzam
    wingzam Posts: 201
    edited February 2010
    I've got an Adcom GFA-5800 and a Kenwood M2..
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  • mantis
    mantis Posts: 17,205
    edited February 2010
    wingzam wrote: »
    And i'd be running 400+watts at 4ohms...

    What do you want a speaker selector box for? With this kind of power , there is no selector that I know of that can handle that kind of power. I have seen them up to 200 watts handling abilities but not beyond that.
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,249
    edited February 2010
    Crap, I just pulled it out and it turns out I have the Niles SVL-1 speaker level volume control. I thought it was a speaker selector switch, my bad.

    Carry on...
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  • wingzam
    wingzam Posts: 201
    edited February 2010
    mantis wrote: »
    What do you want a speaker selector box for? With this kind of power , there is no selector that I know of that can handle that kind of power. I have seen them up to 200 watts handling abilities but not beyond that.

    Shucks,I just wanted to drag in more speakers and make it "Easier" to play around with all this stuff!
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  • erniejade
    erniejade Posts: 6,321
    edited February 2010
    I found the model of the one I have adcom gfs-4. Now I have not hooked it up and it has been laying here for about 2 years now.

    The manual says it can take 1000 watts peak.

    http://www.adcom.com/data/manuals/gfs4manual.pdf


    I was going to use it to go between my amazings and my 2.3's on the sunfire sig. amp but I thought th amazings / sunfire sig II combo would not be good on it as the amazings can dip way down.
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  • seeclear
    seeclear Posts: 1,243
    edited February 2010
    Ernie, PM me if you want to sell that. I could be interested. Thanks
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  • wingzam
    wingzam Posts: 201
    edited February 2010
    ...l should be able to find one on ebay,they're cheap enough!...
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  • erniejade
    erniejade Posts: 6,321
    edited February 2010
    I got mine on ebay. I still have not hooked it up. I need to one day.


    When I want to reallyyyyyy get loud, i put the 2.3' and the 1.2's on at the same time. OMFG the entire place just rattles like crazy. I have 2 amps and 3 sets of speakers so i was going to put the selector between the amazings and the 2.3 but just never got around to it. I just unplug for now.
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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,217
    edited February 2010
    wingzam wrote: »
    Shucks,I just wanted to drag in more speakers and make it "Easier" to play around with all this stuff!

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  • erniejade
    erniejade Posts: 6,321
    edited February 2010
    heiney9 wrote: »
    Banana Plugs


    Yes i am running them but, it is still hard moving the 1.2's and the carver amazings out from where they are to get to the plugs.... or the amps...
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  • wingzam
    wingzam Posts: 201
    edited February 2010
    erniejade wrote: »
    I got mine on ebay. I still have not hooked it up. I need to one day.


    When I want to reallyyyyyy get loud, i put the 2.3' and the 1.2's on at the same time. OMFG the entire place just rattles like crazy. I have 2 amps and 3 sets of speakers so i was going to put the selector between the amazings and the 2.3 but just never got around to it. I just unplug for now.

    Ernie i've heard you mention the "amazings" a couple times...What is an amazing??
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  • erniejade
    erniejade Posts: 6,321
    edited February 2010
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    Sorry about that carver amazing speakers original hard to drive dips down to 1 ohm 2 30" ribbon + 4 12 " free air woofers per cab.
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  • wingzam
    wingzam Posts: 201
    edited February 2010
    Damn Ernie!
    Now me myself?I wouldn't call that wretched excess,but I understand these things..
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