Quality of Hardware Kits

[ewetho]

Neutriks are the only way to go. While working with Steve the plastic 1/4s not so much. we switched out for metal ones.

Leland has great pricing and better service. A true asset here on the forum for your supplies.

[LelandCrooks]

Okay, so which metal ones. I had terrible troubles with them spinning, stripping and poor connections.

[AntonZ]

Original Neutriks only.

Amen to that.

[Nordo]

I think what would help (both plastic and metal fittings) would be including a metal locking washer on each side. Not the spring type, but the ones with the jagged edges that dig in and grip both the timber cabinet and the plastic/metal nut.

[Tom Smit]

like so?......http://images.gasgoo.com/MiMwMDRfMDA0Iz ... -steel.jpg

[Nordo]

Tom wins the prize!!! (and he's not an Aussie!!!)

[wounded horse]

You don't want 1/4 jacks on pro speaker cabs. Not airtight, electrical contact issues, cable pullout. Get the neutrik speakons. The only cab hookup worth using IMO.

[wounded horse]

And possibly the only thing manufactured in Leichtenstein. There's another reason.

[wounded horse]

Lederhosen, that's a possible. But you don't want to fit any of those to a cab, trust me.

[gdougherty]

+1 to 1/4 having no business on a speaker. Would eliminate all the times I've seen clueless people using instrument cable to hookup speakers.
"But look how big the cable is..."
"Yeah, that's all jacket. Best case you've got 20ga in there."

[Bruce Weldy]

Would eliminate all the times I've seen clueless people using instrument cable to hookup speakers.

Yeah, but you know what's coming.........somebody puts a speakon connector on their bass guitar and their amp and tries using speaker cable and wondering why it's noisy......

And yes, it had to be a bass player doing something stupid like that ..... everybody knows that guitar players are way too lazy to deal with equipment.

[SirNickity]

My suggestion: Carry a 1/4" to Speakon pigtail or five. Fewer things on your cabinet jack plate, and in a pinch, you have 1/4" connectivity.