1/4" connectors for speaker cables?
Preferably not if you can avoid it -- Neutrik NL4 (or NL8 as applicable) or Cannon EP (for typically pre-Speakon boxes) are much better. If all that your boxes have is 1/4", one of three options that come to mind might be the thing to do:
- convert the boxes to NL4 (and do loop 2+2- through even though you don't use them on that box) -- if you have room, simply adding NL4s gives you some more flexibility
- build NL4-to-1/4" adapter tails (Neutrik recently came out with a NL4 inline male perfect for that)
- build 1/4" cables (I'd avoid this one if possible)
If you do have to go with 1/4" connectors one way or another, Switchcraft and Neutrik make a 1/4" connector designed for large-diameter cable. I don't remember the model number offhand, but it should be in all the major catalogs.
Do explain!!!
Could you show me a portable snake WITHOUT 1/4" returns (or XLR...which is even worse).
I do prefer speakons. If you read the preface of my thread, you see I say somewhere I want speakon's. However, to make the system compatible with visitor systems, other peoples amps, loop outs, cable shortages, I'd like to have a few 1/4"ers around.
Err you mean the ones designed for as volt of line level signal and wired to 22 odd gauge wire NOT speaker level signal? Plenty of consoles have balanced TRS outputs, and in fact XLR is even better in those cases... If I were ever to see Speakon on a core, I'd be concerned...
And the 6.5mm plug has no place in professional speaker systems. Ever...
Okay...I'm not sure what a 6.5mm plug is. I'm guessing 1/4". If it has no place, why do over half the speakers produced have it on them?
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