Customer Reviews

Monster Cable SS-6 Speaker Switcher for 6 Pairs of Speakers

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I'm highly pleased with the utility of the monster speaker selector. Connections are easy, logical, and the sound does not appear degraded at all. Make sure you always have the protection button engaged. Without it, my amp shut down.
The SS6 is a good way to run speakers to other rooms and outdoors

This six pair speaker selector switch replaced a piece of junk I had unfortunately purchased from Radio Shack. The old switch had bleed-through to non-selected speakers, which sort of defeats the purpose.

The monster switch works as it should - sound only from selected speakers. It also looks nice, with an attractive black coated aluminum housing, and the switches seem to be of good quality. The connectors in the back are a little bit awkward if you don't plan to use the "gold plated pins" that monster would like to sell you, which I don't. Copper is a good enough conductor, thank you.

I have limited budget for audio and I wanted to run speakers to a porch, two sets to a patio and another set in my kitchen. I connected this device to the "B" speakers on my Yamaha reciever. I thought I'd give this thing a try, but I was pretty skeptical because I have a variety of speakers and they are at various distances from my reciever. The farthest pair is over 120 feet away and I put a volume control on the end. I was pretty sure that would not work, but it works very well. The sound is really good even though the signal travels through this thing and 120 feet of wire and a volume control. The next thing I was afraid of is that all the sound would disapear or the quality would drop dramatically when I turned on all the speakers, but when I turned them all on there was no noticable loss of power to any speaker.

The problem with my amp shutting down from my old speaker splitter due to impedance loss has been completely resolved with the Monster SS-6 multiple speaker selector. I am running up to 5 pair of speakers from my one amp. Of course, if the protection button on the SS-6 is turned off then the amp shuts down again. Leave the protection button turned on. This is a great product and the sound quality remains very good as well.

I read several reviews on this product, and the biggest complaint was the connection of the wires to the rear. If you read the description it clearly states it is designed to use with Monster's connectors (which are extremely easy to use). In conjunction with these connectors, the unit works fine and I have had no problems. I have also not experienced any loss in sound by dividing the signal into multiple speakers. If you attempt to cut corners and do not purchase the proper connectors, you will hate this product and probably send it back. The choice is yours. One thing I will mention, this unit while advertised as new had been sold before (I could tell by the packaging). The condition of the unit was fine and I experienced no problems because of it - so I didn't bother replacing it. It must have come from someone who didn't purchase the connectors! :)

For non-critical, multi-room, single zone audio, these get the job done and are priced right.

I installed two of these in a home where the previous owner took the amp and switches when they sold. The existing volume controls were non-impedance matching and I didn't perform any measurements, but two of these switches with 11 pairs of speakers enabled presented a manageable load to the 150wpc 2 channel amp allowing hours of continuous use without forcing the amp into thermal shut down.

I should also point out to others that these are impedance matching, not volume matching, they average out the electrical load placed on the amplifier. This is important because if you have different speakers with different sensitivities (dbl/wm), you will end up with different apparent audio levels in different rooms (I should have thought to explain that to this customer before hand).

The Monster Cable SS-6 Speaker is a great product, at first I thought it would help me to connect my 3 additional speakers, but to my surprise it was able to connect 12 speakers! (6 sets of two/audio-area), this is something great for the price it costs.

I've had this thing for quite a while now and it still works perfectly. Sound is good. Volume on each speaker decreases as you turn more speakers on, but how could it not (it's not an amp)? Bought it used too! Can't believe I didn't get this much sooner!

Simple to hook up and operate.
Does not seem to degrade sound quality at all.
Can run 6 sets of speakers simultaniously without degradation of sound quality or volume.
Can run 6 sets of speakers simultaniously without amplifier overheating.

This is the third unit that I have purchased (for 3 differnt houses) and they all have performed flawlessly.

i use this selector with my yamaha rx-797 and 12 yamaha ns-aw150 speakers, the protection is great and the amp do not over-heat, the cosntruction is solid and you can use pin connectors or simply wire plug, it maintains as high as possible volume you dont lose to much with the circuit protector, i used a niles ss-6 selector the speaker connection is a real pain, the volume is lower than monster and the price is double than monster.