Adam Hall Group brand Palmer has released the Grand Audition MKII, a 19-in loudspeaker switching system on two rack units.
It can deliver loudspeaker routing in showrooms, sales floors and multi-room applications. It has 16 mono or eight stereo outputs and eight parallel subwoofer outputs and facilitates switching of top parts and subwoofers, including individual level controls for precise comparisons.
Channel selection and volume control can be controlled individually or as a stereo pair – either directly from the front panel or via a browser-based web interface, which allows additional control of the Grand Audition MKII using a tablet or laptop. Multiple mode selection enables several connected loudspeakers to be simultaneously selected, and loudspeaker channels can be defined and individually named for fixed or recurring setups. The Grand Audition MKII’s output combinations can be freely configured, meaning it is also suitable as a control centre for measurement and laboratory use. At conferences, a signal source can be supplied to up to 24 headphone amps by the Grand Audition, if required.
It has two balanced XLR inputs and a built-in USB media player that support playback paths. The choice varies from mixers, CD players, or a digital audio workstation (DAW) via a USB storage device on which reference titles can be accessed in WAV, AIF, FLAC, MP3, and OGG data formats.