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The only significant issue with a long cable run is that there may be a slight drop in signal strength. IOW, the signal level might be a bit lower compared to if the component was local and connected with 6-ft. cables. That's nothing that the volume control can't take care of, just like when you...

Good thing you have some time to burn, you’ll need it wading through all that! As you can imagine Reader’s Digest wouldn’t hire me... :laugh: Good luck with the project! Regards, Wayne A. Pflughaupt

The wall plate method was assuming you were making the 40 ft. run in-wall, but that was presumptuous on my part. If you’re not running the wiring in-wall, then in-line jacks and plugs with the splitters/adapters would certainly be the way to fly. But if you are running in-wall, and don’t already...

Happy to help, Pete. By the way, if you can bold text, you can just as easily put it in a quote box: quote /quote (just add brackets). Even better, there’s a handy icon above the text box field (between the envelope and the smiley face) that will do it for you. You can get these jacks...

I’ve never seen one of these things with a switch like that. My best guess is that it kicks in all those resistors to maintain an 8-ohm load to the amp when multiple speakers are being used. If that’s true, then bypassing it would give a straight-through connection when using only two speakers...

Another issue, line level signals require shielded cable, while speaker level signals do not. Thus the wiring inside the speaker switch will not be shielded. Running line-level signals through it may well result in unwanted noise. (See the article in my signature on DIY cable making for details...

Hi Pete, That switcher is supposed to go between an amplifier and speakers. The signal from your computer sound card is line level, not speaker level. After all... ...you don't send speaker cables to the input of another amplifier. What you need is a line level distribution amplifier like...