Speaker Selector

Speaker selectors can divide the original audio signal from your music player or receiver into multiple speakers. Probably the most popular of the speaker selectors is the one that

will divide the audio into six different speaker sets. A 6 speaker selector allows for your stereo system to play music throughout the house in up to six different rooms.  If you are worried about the signal strength when split across multiple channels, dividing the original signal strength by six should not degrade the signal strength too much.

The six speaker selector is probably the most popular because it covers all the basic rooms that people seem to want speakers in: living room, den, dining room, kitchen, master bedroom, and master bathroom.  You gain greater flexibility when you purchase one with volume control. Although the ones with the volume control are more difficult to install, they allow for you to selectively control the volume in each room.  Each room with speakers gets a turn knob that allows for the volume of the speakers in that room to be adjusted. The speaker selector itself only determines if sound goes to the specific rooms or not.

The selector itself will come with push buttons and labels that will allow you to assign a speaker set to each button. There will also be a spot to put a label so you know which button controls which room.  The speaker selector should come with these labels.  If you wish, you can keep your speaker selector visible so you can have easy access to it, or you might choose store it inside a cabinet, it’s entirely up to you.  Many of the 6 speaker selectors do not require power which gives you great flexibility in where you are going to install it.

There are many brands of 6 speaker selectors like Sima and Niles. I would recommend doing some research and reading the reviews on the various speaker selectors as you will quickly find out, there are many on the market.  There should be many reviews on sites like Amazon and Ebay especially for the 6 speaker selectors as they are the most popular on the market.  I’d recommend getting a 6 speaker selector that has some form of protection circuitry that will protect the amplifier from low speaker impedance.  I also recommend having it professionally installed to get the most out of your audio system.