Or you can use something like a Harmony remote. On my remote you press Ayre to turn on the Ayre disc player and the Parasound JC 2 BP preamp in stereo mode; you press DirecTV to turn on the projector, the HD DVR, the Bryston SP3 processor, and the JC 2 BP in pass-through mode so front LR from the SP3 can access the pair of JC 1 amps used for stereo. (The other channels from the SP3 go directly to amps and a bass manager.) You download an ap from Logitech that lets you set what gets turned on when you press each button. Pressing a single button turns everything off.
Two channel home theater speaker integration
I have separate two channel and home theater equipment but want to use the same set of speakers. I originally had two sets of speaker wires (one from each amp) with bananas and just swapped cables when switching from 2 channel or home theater. I found a nice switch box that allowed me to input both sets of speaker cables with output to the one set of speakers. After testing for a while, I decided that I compromised my two channel sound. So I decided to put both sets of speaker wires on the speakers. I figured I was only using one amp at a time so what's the big deal. However I have been noticing that sometimes when I switch from two channel back to home theater, the home theater amp goes into a protection mode and shuts down. I have to turn in it off, unplug and replug, and then it works fine. Am I messing up the amps up here with this set up?