I hope I've put this in the right forum. Here's my situation that I'm currently trying to figure out.

I just bought a Logitech Z-5500 speaker setup, (no critique unless you're going to tell me they're AWESOME! ), and I'm going to mount the satellites in each of the four corners of my living room. However, my projection screen is on the north wall, and the TV is on the west wall. What I'm thinking of doing is mounting the center speaker above the projection screen, and having the sub in the NW corner between the TV and the screen. Then I'll get another center speaker to place below the TV, and finally I'll make a little doohicky thingambob to switch the satellites through 90 degrees, (FL to RL, FR to FL, etc., as viewed when looking at the projection screen), and to swap the center speakers when watching the TV, and back again for the projector.

Now does this sound like a plan, or what?

So my question is this, what would the best way to achieve this with out screwing up the sound quality? I read a suggestion of using Cat 5 cable for wiring speakers, and I have a shit load of that I could use. I could simply add a switch to each of the five speakers I want to swap, but would rather do it with one switch if possible. Could I do this with a small circuit board and relays? Speakers don't have a common lead, so I'd have to switch both wires wouldn't I?

(I'm starting to think DPDT switches for the speakers, and wonder if there is a similar thing relay wise?)

For the switching, you can get DPDT relays for PCBs. That should work out okay, or you can use an array of simple SPDT relays.

Cat5 wire would be adequate for the power levels involved with these speakers. My "real" amplifiers would meltt he copper though.

I take it from this answer that it's not a crazy idea then?

And no, it's not a "real" set up, but it's streets ahead of what we've currently got!

If you like soldering, you could use one of the old A/B switches from a thriftstore - which were made to switch between 2 monitors, keyboards/mice, printers, or whatever. They have MANY connections controlled by a simple A/B knob. I found one at Goodwill for a couple of bucks and rewired it with 18g speaker wire to switch between my indoor/outdoor speakers. Works great - but I wouldn't put a $1000 receiver on it
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Hey, that's not a bad idea. I think I might have one of those around here somewhere!