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Dr. No releases Blameshifter Buffered 3-Way Rotary ABY Switcher for Troy Van Leeuwen, based on a QOTSA inside joke

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What we have here is a Buffered 3-way Loop Switcher - which can send a high fidelity signal through 3 separate Output.

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