I assume there is no lag issues when using this box?

how would any lag be generated?

I don't think there's any lag, since it's a purely analog device. No A/D or D/A conversion is taking place in the Magma.

This looks like a device that no club should be without. Solves a lot of the "Serato Shuffle" problems when multiple DJs are playing on varying mediums.

As the winner of the blue customized switchbox, I can assure you that there is no lag.

The time it takes to pickup the signal is the same as when you drop the needle with you DVS hooked directly.

not happy with this review!

a) how can you complain about the initial setup? these are cables which you have to connect to the dvs and the switchbox. there is NO WAY around it. mentioning this in the cons is rather pointless

b) this device does not look good inside. the components are all "physical" components, switches. in other words it looks like the switch can break easily. i think they should have used digital switches rather than these bulky error prone switches which can break. this also adds noise, decreases the sound quality. not a good design. i expect more for this money there4 it is not worth the price imo.

My comment about the initial setup is more of a cautionary note than marking down the Switchbox. Working with all those wires is a nightmare, and making sure they all work in all the different switch configs is tricky. I just wanted to underline that if the Switchbox is routinely unplugged, then be sure that cables are marked up to ensure that plugging back in is a doddle.

As for the inside (that you never see)- the only thing that moves are the knobs and switches on the outside. I simply showed the guts because that's what I do and also to show that it's not as simple as you might think to knock one of these out as a homebrew project. Remember - these controls are likely to be turned infrequently in a real world situation, but are still of the same analog quality as every other mixer on the market, and those controls are beaten up a whole lot more than a control that is occasionally turned left or right. I'll be amazed if these controls ever break.

The use of digital switches would have required power, either battery or mains adaptor, which turns this into an active product and would be far more likely to introduce noise. Or at least that's what my limited understanding of electronics tells me. I wait to be schooled on this point.

ok point taken they will not be used very frequently.

but i still do not like the circuitry due to mentioned noise and crosstalk. i expected more for such a price tag.

Never plug this swtich to your system if you're not sober. I've almost dropped in tears after NOT being able to figure out why something wasn't working right. The joy of being wasted ...

nice!

@nmngh

Dude, cross-talk and noise, from passive devices?

Think about it, what is different about the contacts in the switches and the contacts between the RCA plugs and sockets?

Please dont say that they are gold plated....

I gotta say while they seem to have made every effort to make this box robust, with a solid chassis and double heat shrink for strain relief on al the wires they could have made it a hell of a lot cheaper by using a PCB based design instead of the cluster fuck of hand soldered wires.

Hate to think what percentage of the total build cost the assembly makes up

One thing...

What if you have CDJs plugged in with a timecode CD.. how can this route to the DVS? From what I can tell, on the back of the box you have 4 line and 4 phono connectors for interface A. So say your using A.. you would connect the 4 phono connectors to the soundcards phono inputs and then connect the 4 line outputs from your soundcard into the 4 line connectors on the Magma... This would get fed back to your mixer.

But want a line level device to be routed to the soundcard?.. can you do line output from magma to soundcard and then line back from soundcard to magma?

Does that make sence?