[sdiy] banana sockets

[Oren Leavitt]

Hello and welcome Charles!

A long time ago I've used mini phone jacks - and then... I went bananas!
I've never had any noise/ground problems with banana plugs.
With the high signal levels used in most modulars, noise pickup should 
be negligable.
As long as all of your modules share a solid common ground, banana 
plugs/jacks should work fine.
If you are retrofitting existing gear that uses mini jacks, you'll need 
to be aware of any jacks that are normalized (have switches in them) and 
work around that some how. If anything is connected to ground by way of 
the jacks, make sure that these are reconnected to ground elsewhere.
Hopefully, you're not living next door to some 100 kilowatt radio 
station :-)

Oren

charles kerr wrote:

> hello people,
> just joined the list, and as a beginner diy-er I must say most of what 
> is discussed is way above my head ( at the moment at least) - I 
> thought jitter analysis was something to do with watching my dad dance!
>  
> Anyway I have a small setup (doepfer, analogue systems/solutions) 
> which is all interconnected with minijacks, these have a tendency to 
> be crap so I want to change all the sockets to banana sockets as these 
> will fit on the existing panels (1/4" sockets are too big) but as 
> banana plugs are unshielded I am concerned that problems may arise 
> (crosstalk, interference etc.) Am I correct, or would it be okay to 
>  proceed with said conversion. I notice that several synth 
> manufacturers use banana sockets, but are the circuits configured in 
> such a way that any problems are negated by their design?
>  
> thanks in advance for any info
>  
> badproducer
>
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