HaveMeterWillTravel
Senior Member
Hey Bob,Hello ASR community, I am Bob from BobWire. Thank you to Amir for taking the time to test my XLR1! I was an engineer/director of product development at Parasound products for 20 years. I left to start my own business (BobWire) last year. The XLR1 is my newest product but I also do make an RCA only version (model RCA1), speaker level (model SPK1) and some audio sensing device to activate 12V triggers (model AAT1 & DAT1). Keeping signal integrity throughout the audio chain has been a top priority in all of my designs and I'm pleased to see that the XLR1 maintains this tradition! (check out my website bobwireaudio.com for more info).![]()
Congrats on working for oneself! I just (semi) retired myself, and will pick up contract work under 1099.
I remember ~35 years ago building a switching system for blind ABx testing. There were a few complications with live switching of line level signals, and of subwoofers during elevated volumes. Back then I had rudimentary experience on dealing with unwanted transients. The typical flyback diodes solved the inductive kickback from the subs; but they introduced their own measurable and audible issues.
We expanded that system to support passive crossover development, so you could have say, 3 different capacitors to switch between.
But it wasn't pretty, the socket bases were all laid out on a wooden board with point to point wiring.