[sdiy] Are there technical reasons that people use 1/8" jacks?

[cheater cheater]

Hm, well, very good point.
The way I would use 1/4" jacks is that I'd use a mono (two-terminal)
plug on both ends, and a shielded single-conductor cable. I would
connect the shield on the plug that goes into the output of a module
only. The output jack could be a stereo jack. On that stereo jack,
leave the ring terminal disconnected, connect the signal wire to the
tip terminal, and ground to the sleeve terminal. Then, unless I'm
mistaken, there is no way for a normal 1/4" plug to short out the two
distant terminals.

The plug that goes into a module's input would of course not have the
shield connected. This would require color coding of some sort.

D.

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Michael
Zacherl.<sdiy-mz01 at blauwurf.info> wrote:
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> On Aug 22, 2009, at 1:41 PM, cheater cheater wrote:
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>> There are the obvious questions of compatibility with existing
>> modules, and the questions of cost (1/4" jack related parts cost more
>> and so do bigger panels). But setting those aside.. is there anything
>> inherently wrong with the 1/4" jack? Does it perhaps have too much
>> capacitance for some applications? The 1/4" jacks don't wear out
>> quicker, they're more resilient, so I'm wondering if there's any
>> application where the 1/8" performs technically better.
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> I'm playing the synth also by plugging / unplugging the patch cables etc.
> For this and a couple of other reasons the 3U formats and this 3.5mm patch
> cords are too small for me.
> I'd really prefer the smaller size, but it doesn't work for me.
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> There's one technical thing which I like and don't like, depending on what I
> want to do: inserting a 1/4" or 3.5mm plug causes a short circuit to ground
> what for instance banana plugs don't do (for logical reasons).
> So plugging can cause a certain noise and (at least theoretically) the
> circuits should be short-circuit-proof.
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>   Michael.
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