Palmer Monicon White

El Palmer Monicon alimenta una pareja de Mackies MR524.

El potenciómetro no presenta holguras ni ruidos. Se desliza con gran precisión. La sensación es muy buena, de control en todo momento.

Los pulsadores tampoco añaden ruido y se sienten duraderos.

El sonido permanece limpio sin color añadido y sin ningún ruido eléctrico.

La terminación en blanco es muy elegante y en conjunto se tiene la sensación de un gran aparato con unos acabados profesionales.

En general, genial producto a un precio más que justificado.

The short version of the review is "Buy one".

I wasn't sure if I really needed a monitor controller, after all there are many knobs, both the real and the software ones, at my disposal - on a sound card, there's a computer volume setting, monitor speakers have volume knobs, and then there's the recording software.

But now, after about 4 months later, I'm really glad I bought it.

Nothing beats simplicity of a solid volume button. This way, you can find the sweet volume spot for all the stuff I mentioned in the first paragraph and only care about the overall volume without messing with the critical volume balance of the components in your signal chain.

The unit itself is reassuringly heavy, it's built like a tank, rubber studs ensure it will not travel freely across your desktop. Having said that, it's easy to move it around when YOU want it to make space for something else.

The wheel travel is balanced on the heavy side - just enough to allow you to make small and precise volume adjustments. At the same time, it's pleasantly smooth.

Mute and Mono buttons work as advertised, when they're ON (when they mute or switch the sound to mono), they remain depressed so you have a visual control to confirm that you haven't gone deaf :)