Manley Laboratories Skipjack A/B Switcher Brand New & Sealed!

We are very excited to make available, the widely acclaimed and immensely useful Manley Labs Skipjack. This unit is brand new, sealed piece, and is no longer manufactured by Manley Labs. THERE WILL BE NO MORE SKIPJACKS PRODUCED!

If unfamiliar with the Skipjack, please take some time to understand the remarkable usefulness of this unique piece. The Skipjack ultimately can add clean, high fidelity inputs to any line stage/preamp system and/or provide a transparent tool for A/B testing of multiple components or cables. This device is perfect for high performance dealers, audiophile society groups, or the hobbyist.

We are a long time, experienced Manley dealer/store and are happy to answer questions about the Skipjack and/or any of Manley Labs' other outstanding products.

Thanks for looking!
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If you are not familiar with these clever and well executed devices, please note the following:

1) They provide a 4 into 1 or 3 into 2 audiophile source selector. Too clever and very useful!

Have you ever wanted to compare two (or more!) sets of interconnects or listen to the difference between a couple of preamps or a few CD players or be your own armchair reviewer? How about you guys with the Manley Steelhead? You have one line input available and have to keep swapping cables when you want to listen to your CD or tuner? Hey, or would you like to go backwards and have one source drive either this or that? And why has no one ever commercially offered a real high-end audiophile thing to do this job?

What you need is a simple A-->B Source switcher, and that's what the new Manley SKIPJACK® is, and more. But behind the deceptively simple facia is some incredibly clever and thoughtful engineering. It's a small box, and it seems too simple, but there is a lot to tell you about this new unit. Please bear with me...

A little history. Learning from past experience

We have been building little switch boxes for years which we use at the factory or in our listening systems to compare two different things. When we are evaluating new designs, these utility boxes can quickly and conveniently switch between two different circuits either on the test bench or in a playback system in order to compare A vs. B. Our earliest rinky-dink plastic in-house switchboxes were just a couple of RCAs wired to a toggle switch. A few problems with this approach:

1) Toggle switches produce an audible click because the contact is not make-before-break.

2) You get a lot of high frequency leakage across small toggle switches which destroys your imaging cues.

3) You need to use long cables running back and forth between you and the gear in order to switch from your listening position while listening so now you're listening to long cables.

4) Usually you run out of available poles to be able to also switch grounds which leaves you with potential ground loops from all the RCAs being permanently tied together.

5) Little flimsy plastic boxes get pulled all over the place by those gigantic hifi cables and they just won't sit where you tell them to!