Completely Passive Stepped Monitor Controller

[Thomas W. Bethe]

Originally Posted by HKD126

Wow. The c3-2as looks amazing. Where can you get these? I tried finding prices but couldn't find them. About how much do they run? It really seems dead on for what I want other than being active. Any other recommendations for a quality active analog controller? Thank you very much!

And Crispin is a GREAT person to work with...

[Thomas W. Bethe]

I use to do a lot of custom electronics work for my own studio and I have built my share of monitor controllers but they are expensive to build, if you do them right, and take a lot of time to build and troubleshoot properly and friends always want to buy it so recently I have just relied on my DAC-1 from Benchmark. I do all the mono switching and channel phase reversals in my DAW software (Wavelab). Works for me. I use a digital switcher from Z-Systems for my digital signals.

If I do eventually get a new monitor controller I think I will probably forgo the custom route and go with Crookwood instead since I have a lot of respect for the company and know they do things right.

FWIW and YMMV

[4blades]

Originally Posted by 8inthemorning

Worth a check:
Stereo balanced monitor controller - QES Labs

Interesting.
It seems there are some options you can choose from, such as the 43-step attenuator from Seiden.