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Industry-standard jack with some drawbacks
It's no wonder, those Neutriks are the standard for many studios and cable builders. This is really an exceptional piece of engineering, I'm amazed every time how much R&D Neutrik puts in their product. Two drawbacks don't allow me to give 5 stars tho:
1. The plastic cap has sharp edges. I touch it when plug the jack in and each time I'm like 'what the hell?'
2. The jack is not pre-tinned and should be soldered with a really strong flux, otherwise the contacts can break anytime (yeah, that happened to me)
update in three years: I've ended up getting rid of those. they're light, ergonomic and great, but they don't hold the abuse that I sometimes put to my jacks. I've replaced them with Amphenols and now my cables don't suddenly stop working out of nowhere.
either I'm extremely poor at soldering, or IDK, but they just don't work reliably for me, whatever I do. I think, the part of the problem is my cable is on thinner and softer side and over the time the stress relief just stops working as cable deforms and there's no more room to tighten the rear cap.
1. The plastic cap has sharp edges. I touch it when plug the jack in and each time I'm like 'what the hell?'
2. The jack is not pre-tinned and should be soldered with a really strong flux, otherwise the contacts can break anytime (yeah, that happened to me)
update in three years: I've ended up getting rid of those. they're light, ergonomic and great, but they don't hold the abuse that I sometimes put to my jacks. I've replaced them with Amphenols and now my cables don't suddenly stop working out of nowhere.
either I'm extremely poor at soldering, or IDK, but they just don't work reliably for me, whatever I do. I think, the part of the problem is my cable is on thinner and softer side and over the time the stress relief just stops working as cable deforms and there's no more room to tighten the rear cap.
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Small casing has some negatives.
When soldering be careful, contacts are very, very close. Dont use with cables which diameter is bigger than 5 mm.
If not necessary rather use connector with bigger casing.
If not necessary rather use connector with bigger casing.
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