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Old 01-12-2010, 03:23 PM
Jens Westerinen Jens Westerinen is offline
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Originally Posted by Ken Smith View Post
All Jacks have an inner spring to hold the Plug. Top mount Jacks can be squeezed back as needed but barrel Jacks like these cannot. Some Cables on the Market with slightly over-sized tips or plugs can, will and do prematurely strip the strength of these springs. The Jacks/Cables that have been reported to have 'killed' the most Jacks in the last 20 years are those made by Monster. They are aware of this and use a type 2 on the cables that kill them. The regular sized type 1 is not as damaging. Jacks lasting 10 years or so are evident by this. Jacks lasting weeks or months tell a different story.
So you think i might have been using over sized plugs that can hade led do this?
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