How to easily "reverse" my 5.1 set up

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I have basically a square room and dedicated AV amp
4 satellites in each corner
TV is mounted over the empty fireplace on one wall (centre speaker is in the fireplace)
I have just bought a projector (really for my use but I need to make minimal impact on the house as I have a wife and daughter and it is a small house)
I will be putting the projector in the fireplace so that it will project on the opposite wall to the TV
When I want to use it, it's no problem to just move the centre speaker to the other side but obviously the front/rear & left/right will then be the wrong way round

I'm not sure that will really be the end of the world but is there an easy way (speaker junction box? if that exists), to switch the speakers around that doesn't include messing around at the rear of the amp?
 
You could maybe split each speaker channel into two, so you have one group of inputs for the front orientation, and one for the projector. Then for each speaker, you use something like an 'audio switch box' or 'audio input selector' to select the left or right input. I could only find RCA versions of these, but they could be wired up using a +/- pair for the speakers. There might be a more elegant solution, not sure...
 
You could get a 1 in 2 out speaker switch and a 2 in 1 out unit to make a crossover unit. The rainforest sell such units.
Andi.
 
I was thinking I could make a box with 2 x 4 banks of 1/4" stereo jacks and just move the ones around for the speaker side

I guess I could do it with basic switches but that may mean using 8 switches unless such a think exists as a 2 in 4 out switch component

andicole0, I think your method wound need one of each box for each speaker
 
That would be a pain every time I want to use the projector instead of the TV.

The simplest way I have thought about now is to just split each speaker cable with a stereo 1/4" mail and female jack connectors and swap them about.

Any reason that wouldn't work?
 
What's the source? If it's a HTPC you could use ffdaudio or similar to map them the other way round quite easily (it uses an input output matrix)
 
Ste said:
What's the source? If it's a HTPC you could use ffdaudio or similar to map them the other way round quite easily (it uses an input output matrix)
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That sounds interesting. Yes mainly it is a HTPC where I would be interested in making sure they are the right way round

got any links?
 
I think I figured it out but will need to test when I get home

I have mapped input left to BackR and input Right to BackL
The speaker configuration is set to "same as input"

Is the mixer still active in FFDSHow if I have enabled passthrough?
 
Hi

Yes that's the idea. I'm not sure about pass through though, hmmm. In terms of links sounds like you're sorted but MPC home cinema edition comes with it iirc.

Give it a go!
 
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