MOTM

>>Well, I must respectfully disagree. I have 50 year old equipment that
uses standard "open" 1/4 jacks and they work just fine. \ufffdDitto for my
PAIA gear from the 70s--and those jacks were anything but expensive.
And I confess that I dislike the "buttery" feel of switchcraft jacks.<<

I wasn't talking about the specific jack, but rather the manufacturer.  Switchcraft makes the best open and enclosed jacks, in my opinion.  I was with a company that was one of the world's largest consumers of 1/4" jacks, and when we went from Switchcraft to other brands it ended up costing us in jack problems and failures.

Ivan

And this was probably just within the warrantee period.  Imagine what it
means over the lifetime of a system.  

John Loffink
The Microtonal Synthesis Web Site
http://www.microtonal-synthesis.com
The Wavemakers Synthesizer Web Site
http://www.wavemakers-synth.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ivancu@... [mailto:ivancu@...]
> 
> I wasn't talking about the specific jack, but rather the manufacturer.
> Switchcraft makes the best open and enclosed jacks, in my opinion.  I was
> with a company that was one of the world's largest consumers of 1/4"
> jacks, and when we went from Switchcraft to other brands it ended up
> costing us in jack problems and failures.
> 
> Ivan
>