I'm trying to find a better solution to the problem of typical audio snakes.
So you've got a connector box on one end, and a pile of plug wires sticking out on the other end.
Who's the genius that came up with this horrible design? Why is this the "standard" of snake design?
It'd be much better to terminate both ends of a multi-conductor snake into terminal boxes.
I have done a lot of searching. Oddly, no such snake with connector boxes on both ends appears to exist for sale anywhere. I have no idea why.
So you've got a connector box on one end, and a pile of plug wires sticking out on the other end.
- The snake plug wires you don't need to use don't have any place to go.
- You can't tuck the unused cords away anywhere, and they are not removable, so they just sort of flop around in the dirt, on the ground in a random mound of tangled spaghetti.
- These unused cords can get repeatedly smushed and crushed behind and around all the other audio gear, until after a while the connectors and wires are a wreck, and just because you aren't using them.
- If the connections are high in the air on equipment, you have the weight of unused connectors hanging down, which causes extremely sharp bending apart of the wires where the multiconductor snake fans out. This hanging down weight crushes the insulation and over time can cause internal shorting where it folds over.
Who's the genius that came up with this horrible design? Why is this the "standard" of snake design?
It'd be much better to terminate both ends of a multi-conductor snake into terminal boxes.
- For the snake connectors you want to use, plug in a patch cord which itself has a number or color code on both ends.
- For the snake connectors you don't use, there's nothing hanging loose to get damaged or crushed on the floor.
- The XLR patch cords meanwhile can be stored plugged together on a reel, or in a carrying case kept with the snake.
I have done a lot of searching. Oddly, no such snake with connector boxes on both ends appears to exist for sale anywhere. I have no idea why.
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