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night here in Los Angeles called [the sound], if anyone's in town please 
come check it out!



For those of you unfortunate to miss last week's [the sound], you missed 
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One point... I always used to hate wall-warts too, but there is one thing (all the points you mentioned, which were excellent) and one other thing...

In a lot of equipment the power supply is the thing most likely to go, or put another way, if the power supply goes, you gotta get it repaired. Wall warts, you have know the rating in milliamps (maybe amps sometimes?) and the voltage needed, and if the center pin is + or -, and you can get a new one. That is a big pluss. Talking about gigging, why is it such a hassle with gigging? I assume you take a power strip with and that has the same plug as it would have had with internal supply. I don't see why that hurts any?

What I hate is, like on my Digitech RP-7, where the connecter is special (like a MIDI connector) and it easily falls out.

Jim

                          James R. Acker
     jacker@... listen to my music at.....
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My current songs can be now heard at my site: http://home.sol.no/~jacker/

----- Original Message ----- 
Fra: Bruce Wahler <bruce@...>
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Sendt: 26. september 2001 23:37
Emne: Re: [AN1x-list] an1x construction.


Jimmy,

>I don't mind the plastic as much as I mind the wall wart. What were
>they thinking? Most pros won't gig with a wall wart instrument.

What they were thinking was that they could save cost, development time, 
and a lot of certification hassles (UL, FCC, TUV, etc.) by separating the 
AC power from the audio and low-voltage stuff.  It allows Yamaha (and 
others) to farm out the power supply part on a per-country basis, and focus 
on the music part.  I'm not fond of the trend, but it is DEFINITELY a 
trend.  In the past ten years, I have owned (or still own) the Fatar Studio 
88; Alesis S4, Quadraverb+, Quadraverb GT, and Quadraverb 2; MIDIman 8x8 
USB; Ensoniq KMX-8; Digitech S100; and the AN1x.  All of these pieces are 
considered "pro" equipment, and all have external power supplies.  Most of 
them have wall-wart style boxes.

One thing that you can do is to replace the "wall wart" supply with a small 
switching supply like many laptop computers have.  The supply is still 
external, but it's usually lighter, better made, often works with 
international voltages (100-240V), and has a removable power cord.  It also 
doesn't clog up a power strip like wall warts do.  I use one that is about 
the size of a pack of king-size cigarettes, not much heavier than the same, 
and takes a power cord like the ones that boom boxes use.  (I also sell 
them in the music side of my business.  If anyone is interested, contact me 
off-line for more details.)


Regards,

-BW

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When I moved to Norway I was puzzled by the fact tha tone couldn't buy the range of electrician supplies (or plumbing for that matter) that you can in the US. I have spent a lot of time in Amsterdam and Utrecht (lived there for a few months..I love that town!) and I think it is the same there. 

For one thing I think they want to discourage overloading. You ever see National Lampoons Christmas vacation? Lots of homes in the US have adapters with LOTS of plugs hanging from them. They are a fire hazard and if people use them they ought to check the rating in amps for the circuit they are plugged into. 

That's why they do it here anyway.


                          James R. Acker
     jacker@... listen to my music at.....
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My current songs can be now heard at my site: http://home.sol.no/~jacker/

----- Original Message ----- 
Fra: Peter Korsten <peterk@...>
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Sendt: 29. september 2001 09:34
Emne: Re: [AN1x-list] an1x construction.

> From: "Elson Trinidad" <elson@...>
> 
> > At 03:35 PM 9/28/01 -0700, Ferrie Tuin wrote:
> > >Why do you think it's illegal?
> >
> > Lots of things are legal in the Netherlands...heh...why would a silly
> piece
> > of electrical gear not be?
> 
> Drugs aren't legal, they are condoned. There's a difference.
> 
> I'm not entirely sure why these many-in-one connectors, that plug directly
> into a wall plug, are illegal, but it could be all kinds of reasons. Strain
> on the connector could be one (but then again, wall-wart power supplies do
> the same thing), maximum drained power per connector. I'm not the expert
> here.
> 
> A question to Dutch people: when was the last time you saw such a device
> being sold? Most of you probably can't remember. It could also be that they
> are illegal in the whole of the EU.
> 
> - Peter
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