> Well, I must respectfully disagree. I have 50 year old equipment that
> uses standard "open" 1/4 jacks and they work just fine. Ditto for my
> PAIA gear from the 70s--and those jacks were anything but expensive.
I don't know about the jacks that PAIA chose, but I'd be willing to bet that
50-year-old equipment that's still working was built with jacks of higher
quality than that of most jacks on the market today. The saying "they don't
make it like they used to" definitely applies to hardware manufacturing.
--Adam