Dayton Audio IWS-AB In Wall A-B Speaker Switch

by Dayton

Product Details

• Item Weight: 5.3 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 5.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0002KRA9M
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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  • #82 in Electronics > Accessories & Supplies > Audio & Video Accessories > Distribution > Selector Switch Boxes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 31, 2009

Product Description

This popular Decora® wall switch mounts into any standard single gang outlet box. It allows the selection between two different input sources for the same speakers. It can be used in conjunction with either standard or impedance matching volume controls and can handle up to 150 watts of power.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good looking switch, terrible instructions, May 29, 2009

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Atahualpa (Friendswood, TX United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Dayton Audio IWS-AB In Wall A-B Speaker Switch (Electronics)

The package indicates that you can use this switch for two input sources and one speaker pair. I extremely disagree. Because it can also be used as a switch between two speaker pairs and one source, the current can go in both directions, thus creating the possibility of sending damaging feedback to one of your receivers (like I did), if you hook it up incorrectly. Now, you may ask yourself, "Well what bonehead would hook this up without carefully checking all the + and -'s on your connections?!" Well, this is very easy to do, because the labeling in the back for +/-A and +/B is misleading and the instructions are too simplistic to be of any use.

If you have a volt meter or a current tester to verify where the power is going then go ahead and use this switch for two input sources, otherwise, I would only buy this as a speaker pair selector.

I ended up buying this instead Cables To Go - 37089 - In-Wall Audio Source Selector-White

It features isolated connections for the positive and negative leads of both stereo channels which will only permit the current to flow in one direction (In the event of you accidentally crossing your wire leads.)

5.0 out of 5 stars Good audio source switch, August 29, 2011

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jrhamos - See all my reviews

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This Dayton Audio A-B has been in service for several years and works great. Also was easy to hook up.

4.0 out of 5 stars Speaker selector - not source selector, February 21, 2011

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Rickster - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dayton Audio IWS-AB In Wall A-B Speaker Switch (Electronics)

If you want an amp to power two sets of speakers, and choose which one you want, this switch is for you.
That would be called a "speaker selector" switch.

If you want to drive one set of speakers from two differewnt amps and choose between the two, this switch is not for you.
As others have mentioned, it only switches the +R and +L with the minuses all in common.
Unlike some other power systems, the minus is not "ground". It would not be good to tie the R- to R- on two different amps.

What you want is a called a "Source Selector" switch