Amy's Blog

Too cool.  Normal A/B boxes apparently can't handle Klipsch speakers?  Efficiency is a wonderful thing.  The country needs more smart people capable of such geeky things.  Can't get what you need, make your own.  

So who's doin' the building?  

Not for sure, but it's probably Joe Land.

The box was developed by Matt and Joe.  Joe was working as an intern for us at the time of the original development.  When we had the Engineering Summit last time they did a dog and pony show and all the other engineering groups (API and Jamo) wanted their own, so it is now in "production", and we're building a half-dozen, and by we I mean Joe. : )  Each hand-built model probably costs a few thousand dollars (made to order enclosures), plus all the engineering time that went into the development.

This is not just any old switch box, we have one of the  ABX testers but just didn't cut it for what we needed to do.

This thing has four stereo XLR ins and outs (16 total), stereo amp (binding posts) in and four stereo amp outs (more binding posts).

We can MUX just about any way you can think of AND control the volume/level matching of each line level signal (blind AB testing would be kind of pointless without it).

And it also has a remote so you can sit in your chair and change what you're listening to... again blind AB would kind of be pointless without it.

Did we use one of these during the Pilgrimage blind listening tests?  forums.klipsch.com/.../106444.aspx

I'm not sure I paid attention to any branding on the remote.... though could be a universal one programmed for your needs?  

And I was good and didn't look behind the scrim and naturally don't recall the equipment list which I think was posted after the fact.  

Indeed, I am the mystery arm in the picture.  

blsamuel, you are correct, that was the prototype(v1 if you will) in the place during the pilgrimage.  The remote was likely a Harmony using our own IR code.

I pick 'B'.