Setting up speaker system to A/B mixes

[Sonic Blue Meanie]

I do my mixing on a pair of Yamaha NS-10M near field speakers. They sound great but when I want to hear mixes on some bigger systems I have to burn a cd and take it around. I'd like to set up a simple a/b system with another set of speakers. My question is how to do this on a budget, so that I don't have to disconnect and connect various cables. Bearing in mind, this is a modest set up using an Mbox2 interface. Probably pretty common knowledge, but any advice would be really appreciated.

[The Dougfather]

You can buy speaker matrix's at varying prices and quality, Behriner Mon800, Samson C-Control, Mackie Big Knob etc.

[Varela]

Originally Posted by The Dougfather

You can buy speaker matrix's at varying prices and quality, Behriner Mon800, Samson C-Control, Mackie Big Knob etc.

There are a lot of steops forwards after that issues!

[Sparky1]

Here's an inexpensive idea - not ideal - but kinda fun.

Buy an Airport Express - and stream your mixes to your home stereo - or wherever else you want to hook up your express...

Sparky

[Sonic Blue Meanie]

Intersting, not a simple as I had hoped. Thanks for all of the recommendations. Good to learn that this process is a called a speaker matrix though. I was thinking, and had hoped to avoid swapping cables around, but would it hurt anything to connect out of the headphone jack to a Y-splitter cable to the L-R jacks of an aux amplifier input?

[HD2]

Could you just set up another set of speakers on the spdif outs via a converter and then set up another output bus that can be muted/unmuted when needed?

[Varela]

Mackie Big Knob is really great!

[Thermodyn]

What kind of amp are you using to drive the NS10s? I am using an early 80's Kenwood, and it has separate A and B speaker outs that I can switch between when I want to check a mix. Even my mid 90's Sony Pro Logic home theater receiver has this feature. If you are running passive monitors instead of actives for your B setup, I would think this should be relatively simple.