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Your cart is empty.Rackmount your AB168 Digital Stage Box The AB168 Rackmount Kit rack kit places your Allen & Heath AB168 digital stage box conveniently in a rack case. Sweetwater has found the Allen & Heath AB168 to be an outstanding solution that's flexible, scalable, and reliably rock-solid. Now, thanks to the Allen & Heath AB168 Rackmount Kit, it's easier to transport, too.Allen & Heath AB168 Rackmount Kit Features: Rack kit for your AB168 digital stage box Places your AB168 alongside your other rackmount gear Makes transporting your AB168 easier
EsKay_KC
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2025
These are well designed and they perfectly fit the A&H AB168.👍🏾 However ... I wish the description included pictures that showed what the stagebox would look like rack-mounted. Yes, one can imagine/guess but a picture is worth so much more. Here are my thoughts:1. The rack ears are taller than the unit. They're designed to lift the unit up, which allows for space beneath it. It makes perfect sense ... after all, you need room to route all those XLR cables. A picture, however, would show that this requires 3RU to mount, and not 2RU. Oddly, it doesn't even say that in the description. Why doesn't it?2. A picture of this unit - in a rack, properly mounted, with XLR cables plugged into it - would also allow a user to imagine how best to route their own cables. I purchased this for our church and, in our case, our rack enclosure has a door. These rack ears, unfortunately, do NOT recess the unit at all. A slight recess would allow connected XLR connectors to be flush with the front of the rack ears. As it is, it looks like this will prevent us from closing the rack door. If I put the stagebox on a rack shelf, we can simply move it back a little, but that setup lacks the ease of connecting/disconnecting cables with one hand and keeping things from moving all over the place, which was the point of rack-mounting it in the first place. As it is, I'm still weighing our options.Anyway, there's nothing wrong with the rack ears themselves, the design just leaves a little to be desired and, honestly, A&H could have done better. My 4-star rating is not because of the perceived design flaw described above, but because the rack-mount screws were missing. The torx screws needed to attach the rack-mount ears to the unit were in the box but the actual screws + washers needed to mount the fully assembled unit were missing. They're pictured in the item description so, it's worth mentioning. Thankfully, I didn't need them (we've got more than we'll ever need), but... they were still missing.My suggestion:Allen & Heath, kindly give thought to designing another rack-mount option for this stagebox that will include multiple mounting points or, a movable attachment that would allow the stagebox to be to be recessed anywhere from 2 - 4". This would help immensely ... especially with rack enclosures that have doors/locks. Thank you!
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