RE: Speaker Switch - Advice Needed

["White, Peter" <peter.white@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've used rotary switches in our wetrooms, where the output from a
Sonos
ZP100 is split 3 ways via a speaker switch.  The 'main' feed is to the
bedroom, but I wanted the option to control the wetrooms locally, so I just
put one of the switches in line, which allow me to turn the volume from
nothing up to whatever the volume is in the bedroom.  Obviously, as I'm
splitting the Sonos output, the actual volume on each of the speaker pairs
is 1/3 of what it would be if I was only driving 1 set of speakers.

All from CPC, none of it as pretty as the QED stuff, but it does the job.

Splitter: http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/endecaSearch/partDetail.jsp?SKU=AV08693
<http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/endecaSearch/partDetail.jsp?SKU=AV08693&N=411>
&N=411 (not sure if this is the right one, looks the same, but is a lot
cheaper than I paid a year ago)
Rotary Switch:
http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/endecaSearch/partDetail.jsp?SKU=AV01580
<http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/endecaSearch/partDetail.jsp?SKU=AV01580&N=411>
&N=411

Pete

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From: Craig [mailto:craigc.lists@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 17 June 2006 18:09
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Speaker Switch - Advice Needed



I have just installed some garden speakers, and would like some advice on
how I can switch them on/off or maybe even volume control. They are the
only
speakers connected to the speaker/amp output of a sonos zoneplayer, the
line-out goes to the amp in lounge.

I would like to be able to physically turn off and/or control volume the
garden speakers some how. Solution needs to fit a single gang box.

Amp <--line-out--- Sonos --?switch?---> Garden Speakers

I have found this:

http://tinyurl. <http://tinyurl.com/gmbqm> -com/gmbqm

Is a 'speaker' switch any thing special, or just a normal DPDT switch?
Could
I make something with a cheaper DPDT switch and a single gang face plate
with destroying the sonos amp?






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