Speakers in multiple zones: just basic switching?

[FR DRew]

So wife and I are lucky enough to have a 140W class A Krell that will drive a 2 ohm load (320W per channel) if needed to.

We are wanting to have some additional speakers around the house (Focal 100 ICW8 in ceiling in Kitchen/Dining and in Laundry/Studio and some B&W AM1's outdoors).  Plan is to be able to add the kitchen/dining pair to our mains when entertaining, or to add the B&W's if chilling outside.  Have a speaker pair in the bedroom as well that I'd also like to be able to connect.

Obviously, we can't run main, bedroom, outdoor, dining and studio all together at the same time, but we'd never wish to (and there's no teenagers or kids around who will stupidly turn on all channels at once).  I really don't want to strangle the Krell as it's a stunning sounding amplifier, so cheap off the shelf switches seem to be best avoided.  Is my best bet to just wire up a switch box with high quality internal cabling and 4PST switches for each speaker pair?

Thoughts from brains trust appreciated...

[Snoopy8]

Why not use a wireless multi room setup like BlueSound or Sonos?  It is much easier to set up and use.

[sloper]

l have a couple of these.

Technolink TC-616 6-Way Stereo Amplifier/Speaker Comparator

 

Also have the input version

Technolink TC-716 6-Port Stereo Source Selector

 

Seem to work really well, the input one also has seprate commons.

 

regards Bruce

 

 

[andyr]

13 hours ago, FR DRew said:

Obviously, we can't run main, bedroom, outdoor, dining and studio all together at the same time, but we'd never wish to (and there's no teenagers or kids around who will stupidly turn on all channels at once).  I really don't want to strangle the Krell as it's a stunning sounding amplifier, so cheap off the shelf switches seem to be best avoided.  Is my best bet to just wire up a switch box with high quality internal cabling and 4PST switches for each speaker pair?

 

You could certainly do this - but the need for a case and quality input/output terminals as well as the switches (plus someone to CNC all the holes) ... will make this a not-cheap undertaking.

 

13 hours ago, FR DRew said:

We are wanting to have some additional speakers around the house (Focal 100 ICW8 in ceiling in Kitchen/Dining and in Laundry/Studio and some B&W AM1's outdoors).  Plan is to be able to add the kitchen/dining pair to our mains when entertaining, or to add the B&W's if chilling outside.  Have a speaker pair in the bedroom as well that I'd also like to be able to connect.

 

I use a Niles SSVC-4 (4-way) to do exactly this.  It's a great piece of kit.