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losthighway
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Post by losthighway » Sat Nov 01, 2014 11:44 am

I've used female 1/4" TRS jacks on cables to solve various cabling problems over the years and I always hate them. There's almost always an alternative in a longer cable, or some other dual mono to single stereo something or other, but I don't always get around to it. Plugging a quarter inch cable into another just feels wrong and if you look at it wrong it goes all intermittent.

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Post by Andy Peters » Tue Nov 18, 2014 1:00 pm

Snarl 12/8 wrote:I can't believe no one's mentioned mini/micro USB yet.
Micro USB connectors are an abomination. They have a working lifetime of maybe two dozen connect/disconnect cycles. Ignore the stated data sheet rating of 10,000 cycles for the contacts -- it's not the contacts that fail.
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Post by The Scum » Tue Nov 18, 2014 1:44 pm

RCA's are pretty frustrating.

I've got a cassette deck with a note taped to the back of it:
Next time you find yourself resoldering the RCA harness for this thing, pull it from the rack, and drill some 3/8" holes for some real connectors!
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Post by Justin Foley » Thu Nov 20, 2014 6:33 am

Banana plugs, especially on the back of a power amp going to speakers. I've had my share of live show where the intermittent crackling sound of our drum machine into the left or right speaker required a mid-song dive behind the amp rig to slam the banana plug connectors with the heel of my hand.

Neutrik Speakons are such an improvement.

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