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Question about hand-built preamp and Cambridge CXU/Oppo

Sig.Rossi

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Hello,

I have a hand-built passive preamp. Photo is attached.

It has 4 alternatively switchable inputs, volume controls and two simultaneously active outputs.

I don't understand the circuit.

I would like to connect two Class D amplifiers to the two outputs at the same time for a double signal from two pairs of speakers.

I tried it. It works. But I'm not sure if that's just luck. Can anyone say whether there is a risk of something being damaged with that circuit?

I also connected the stereo output and the surround front output from a Cambridge CXU to the inputs on 1 and 3. This means I can switch between the pure stereo signal and the processed surround signal. Does anyone know if this can be a problem? The CXU appears to have no output routing.
 
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Totally forgot. To make it even more complicated, I would like to route the rear surround output from the CXU directly and the second output from the passive preamp into another switcher and from there into a Class D amp.

I wanted to use something like this

or that


And from the speaker outputs of the amp

something like that to be able to switch from to different pairs of speakers


Pretty complicated. So I thought I'd better ask before burning down the house.

Really hope someone can help.
 
CXU stereo - preamp 1 - output 1- Topping PA 5 II

CXU Sr Front -preamp 3- output 1- PA 5 II

CXU Sr Back - RCA Switcher 1- 2nd class D amp

CXU stereo -preamp 1- output 2 - RCA Switcher 2- 2nd class D amp

2nd class D amp speaker out- speaker switch- speaker pair one and two

CXU front out- active speaker

Gee, any problems here ?
 
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