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Bottlehead Kits => Legacy Kit Products => Paramount => Topic started by: rbc3 on September 28, 2015, 08:35:33 PM

Title: damage from another amp?
Post by: rbc3 on September 28, 2015, 08:35:33 PM

I realize this might be a dumb question, but I'm going to ask anyway.  I'm considering wiring my surround sound processor amp output for front channel left and right in to my speakers and leaving them wired to my Paramount 1.1 so that cables are running from both amps to the speakers at the same time.  If the Paramounts are turned off, is there any harm in leaving them wired to my speakers if the speakers are being driven by my surround sound processor?  In other words, can the output of the surround processor/amp somehow damage the Paramount?

Title: Re: damage from another amp?
Post by: STURMJ on September 29, 2015, 08:16:59 AM

Make a A-B switch.  A box of your choosing. A switch (dpdt). And binding posts, (2 sets in, one set out)

Title: Re: damage from another amp?
Post by: Doc B. on September 29, 2015, 09:30:41 AM

The other amp will see the secondary of the Paramount as a dead short. Don't do it.

Title: Re: damage from another amp?
Post by: jake111 on September 29, 2015, 04:05:04 PM

This might be helpful.

http://bottlehead.com/smf/index.php?topic=7476.0

Title: Re: damage from another amp?
Post by: rbc3 on September 29, 2015, 07:39:01 PM

Thanks everyone for the helpful responses.  My gut feel was that it didn't feel right, so that's why I asked before doing it.  Instead I'm just swapping the banana plugs of the cables from each amp when I switch back and forth.