Re: high quality 1x2 digital audio AB switch?

Arny Krueger wrote:
> "Roscoe East" <roscoeeast@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1122576489.463600.147230@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> > I've got a situation where I need to route the S/PDIF
> > output of a Meridian preamp/processor to one of two
> > different destinations. Can't go to both simultaneously,
> > so a DA won't work; has to select between Output A and
> > Output B.
>
> Just for grins please explain why you can't drive both
> outputs at the same time. Seems like a pretty rare situation
> where you couldn't.

Think about what I wrote: it's not both Outputs, it's both Inputs that
I can't drive simultaneously. So I have to route a single output
selectively between one of two different inputs, but not both
simultaneously.

The inputs here are both Meridian DSP digital active speakers. It's as
if we had two pairs of speakers in two separate zones. Except, in this
case, the two zones are both in the same room! Having the signal routed
to both pairs of speakers simultaneously would completely corrupt
imaging, etc.

I suppose I could find a way to remotely power on/off each pair of
active speakers so that I just turn off the amps rather than disable
the input to the unused pair of speakers. But I thought (foolishly,
apparently, as no one's come up with a solution that fits the mandate)
that a swanky S/PDIF AB selector switch would be a common item.

.

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