[sdiy] good alternative for mini-jacks

[Dave Krooshof]

>Hello, Alex,
>
>Not trying to be overly picky here (yah, right!), but I think you mean plugs,
>not jacks. Jacks are what's installed in the modules themselves, plugs are on
>the end of your cables that you push into the jacks. ;-)

with the risk of biting in a joke...
...though the stupid plugs you stick into walkmans, guitars, patchpanels,
synths
and whatevers are oftern referred to as (mini)jacks, as a type name.
The socket will be a female jack.
(Got to see one IRL :-)

Now I'm at it:
I *hate* it that all those consumer plugs, being it minijacks, jacks,
cinch/RCA, the fancy jackish plugs in my mixingconsole's
patchbay, etc for this reason: They first connect the tip to the ground.
<dutch> "k-krrgggk!" </dutch>
these designs are hell-a-stupid, seriously you guys!
I chopped off a lot of my RCA plugs' pins, so ground is touched first, then
the signal, and the risk of touching the ground with the tip is lowered.

Secondy, the jack's ground connections don't seem stable, as there's
no force on it. Jackplugs simply hang in the sockets.
If it were love, it would suck.


Dave

ps. I enjoyed the video synth schems I came a cross in several (!) links in
yr emails, my dear fellow sdiyers!.





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