Two receivers, one set of speakers (1 Viewer)

[Bill**H]

I want to hook up 2 receivers to just my front left and right speakers to A/B the sound of the receivers. I can use a splitter on my Coaxial out on the DVD player, hook one cable to each receiver and run speaker wires from the second receiver to the speakers.

I then could turn on one receiver set the volume to 80 dB, turn it off and turn the other receiver on and set the volume to 80 dB. I then could listen to receiver A for a while, turn it off and turn on receiver B on and listen to receiver B. That way I would know for sure which receiver sounded better, correct? Can I do this with out hurting either receiver? Would the signal from receiver A back feed into receiver B hurt anything if receiver B is turned off?

Hope I explained what I want to do clear enough. I do not want to be unhooking and hooking up speaker wires every time I want to switch receivers. Is this doable?

Thank You,

Bill

 

[TomCW]

If both receivers have output relays that open when the power is off, it might work. :star: BUT if both receivers are EVER on at the same time you will probably SMOKE BOTH OF THEM. :star: Not really worth the risk. Get a good speaker selector switch.

Tom