Doepfer

I have owned (and loved) Doepfer equipment for 4 years now, and have 
personally only had 2 jacks malfunction on me, to the point of having 
to pull out the module and push in the metal contacts to tighten the 
connection. Having said this, most of them DO wobble a lot when the 
plug is in, and the contact can become loose and intermittent if the 
cord is moved (sometimes by the lightest touch). This can be very 
frustrating, and I consider it the BIGGEST flaw of the Doepfer. This 
problem notwithstanding, the Doepfer is a superb instrument: stable, 
bright oscillators, snappy EG's, great filters....I think Dieter et 
al should concentrate more on improving their current line of modules 
than on coming up with more (gimmicky) modules (with the exception of 
the much anticipated, already legendary touch keyboard controller, of 
course!). May be a rev. 1.2 version of the modules. One suggested 
alternative is to change the jacks to banana ones. I have a 
moderately large system with bananas: 3 vco's, 2 mixers, 3 eg's, 1 
phaser, 1 ringmod, 1 noise, 1 audio divider, 2 vca's. Works 
perfectly, and looks way cool. Something for DIY'ers to consider.
cuari