Allen & Heath AA8705 Headphone Holder Bracket for ME-1 and ME-500 Mixers

Allen & Heath AA8705: A Purpose-Built Home for Your Headphones on the ME Mixer

The Allen & Heath AA8705 is a dedicated headphone holder bracket for the ME-1 and ME-500 personal monitor mixers, giving in-ear and headphone performers a fixed place to stash their monitors between songs. It clamps to the front underside of the personal mixer and adds a sturdy metal hook exactly where a musician reaches for it, so a set of IEMs never ends up on the floor, under a foot, or lost in a dark backline. Built from solid metal with a rubberized contact pad, it is a small accessory that quietly solves one of the most annoying problems on any monitor rig. Once it is on your ME unit, you stop thinking about where your headphones went and start focusing on the show.

How the AA8705 Mounts and Protects Your In-Ear Monitors

The AA8705 attaches to the front underside of an ME-1 or ME-500 using the included screws, positioning a curved metal hook that cradles a headphone band or an IEM cable loop without pinching it. The contact surface is finished with a rubberized pad so the bracket grips gently and keeps the finish of your monitors free of scratches and scuffs, which matters when your in-ears cost as much as the mixer. Because it hangs the cable in a natural coil, the leads stay tangle-free and ready to grab, rather than knotting around the mixer's connectors. The all-metal construction means the hook holds its shape night after night, resisting the bends and bumps that plastic clips give in to. It is a permanent, low-profile addition that never gets in the way of the mixer's controls.

Who the Allen & Heath AA8705 Is For

The AA8705 is made for anyone running an Allen & Heath ME personal monitoring system, from in-ear performers on a touring stage to worship musicians and corporate AV players who mix their own monitors. If you keep pulling your IEMs out between songs and hunting for somewhere safe to set them, this bracket ends that ritual by giving every ME-1 or ME-500 station a dedicated headphone home. It is equally at home in a permanent install where each musician has a fixed position and on a fly rig that gets packed and reset every night. For the price of a small accessory, it makes a personal monitor mixing rig tidier, faster to reset, and easier on expensive in-ear monitors.