Hosa PDR-369 12-Point XLR Balanced Patchbay

I own 8 of these for my racks of preamps and other outboard gear. No digging around the back of a rack to route signals. The only issue I have found is that some of the units seem to be fabricated such that they take up just slightly more than one rack space. For me this hasn’t been a huge issue because I bought racks with plenty of extra space, but just be aware. Quality of XLR jacks is excellent, no degradation in signal passing through these jacks. Reversibility is easy and really makes these versatile.

I used this little unit in my studio to make the rear input on my audio interface more easily accessible. Using decent quality cables I could detect no degredation in audio quality, and, of couse, the ease of making connections is great. Not a lot to say here. It is an inexpensive quality solution that works. If that is what you want, this will do the job. nuff said.

Very good. Holes are exact to the size of the connectors,

Just got mine. All connections work, it's sturdy, and sound quality is there. I like that the connections are reversible too (just use a screwdriver and turn 1 or more around within the casing). However, there are no pictures of the bottom of this unit, and I was surprised to see when I received it - OPEN at the bottom. No metal plate, just open, showing all the guts. Seems like a shortcut. It was a new item, in the box, wrapped up by HOSA. I assume this makes it easier to flip the connections around? But it also opens up the components to damage and dust/debris. It works well, and I have it sandwiched between 2 other units, but just something to know.

This thing is EXACTLY what I needed! Having the ability to swap the gender of individual jacks makes this worth every penny. I would have preferred metal jacks (or, Neutrik brand, at least), but the quality and craftsmanship are flawless. I'm happy that I've solved the front-to-back patching hassle on my mobile mixer rig!

Works just fine for the most part and seems to be well made with one exception. I just had an issue recently where one of the lock pins got stuck and the XLR would not come out. I had to disassemble the whole thing and basically ruin that channel's plug to get the cable out without damaging the cable's end. I moved to an unused channel and that push button lock also got stuck and would not release the XLR. I'm hoping it's not a defect with all of them.

Needed easy access to XLR connectors of rack-mounted equipment and this is prefect. Easy to reverse connectors tp accommodate inputs or outputs.

The first time I used this the 2nd front input jack broke. I cannot remove the XLR cable from that jack no matter how hard I try. The release button apparently became disconnected so it's just flopping around and isn't releasing the plug. I find the product very useful for plugging mics into my various preamps, so I give it more than 1 star for that reason. But considering this product is nothing more than a few XLR jacks mounted in a rack, having poor quality jacks is really disappointing. FOLLOW-UP 1/11/2011: I was able to repair the broken jack by disassembling it and bending the release pin back to it's original position. So at least the jacks are designed to be repairable.

I got this mainly for the reversible feature. It is easy to do with a simple Philips screwdriver. Works great.