[sdiy] Banana vs. 1/4" question

[Michael Schulze]

A while back we had a thread about the ideal modular synth connector.  I'v
just finished my first module - a quad vco with 36 1/4" jacks.  As I gaze
longingly at the Milton sequencer I remember how cool it was on the big
Buchla system in college to be able to split control voltages by just
sticking a banana into another banana already plugged it.  Very conducive to
improvisation and patching on the fly.

As I remember the thread the only real disadvantage to bananas was that they
could not be normalled and you needed to adapt signals from the outside
world.  I don't care about these points - were there any other disadvantages
I am forgetting?

I am actually considering redoing all 36 of these jacks to end up with an
all-banana modular.