2 systems one set of speakers?????


Hello All I have a question that maybe someone out there can help me with. I have a pre-amp, amp, cd player set up by its self. and I also have a receiver and another cd player that sound really good together for rock cds and the cds that don't sound as well on the pre-amp set up. Is there away I can use the 2 systems through one set of speakers?? So I can play the pre-amp set up and then switch to the receiver set up on the same speakers. Can I run 2 sets of speaker wires to the same set of speakers?? or will this damage one or the other. is there anyway or some thing I can do? I'm new at this so please someone help THnaks
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DO NOT run two sets of speaker wires to one set of speakers...you would essentially be connecting the outputs of the two amplifiers together, which is BAD. The only safe way to do this is to have some type of switching box that isolates the two amps. Such a device isn't very common, unfortunately...I'm not sure where you'd find one. A better solution would be to use two sets of speaker cable terminated with banana plugs, and just swap the connections to the speakers.