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Why are people making a big deal about replacing 1/4" with speakon? Apparently 1/4" will kill you know but that never stopped people from using it in the past. Ive touched the metal on a 1/4" coming out of an amp many times and I'm still not dead. What am I missing?
 
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OOD said:
Why are people making a big deal about replacing 1/4" with speakon? Apparently 1/4" will kill you know but that never stopped people from using it in the past. Ive touched the metal on a 1/4" coming out of an amp many times and I'm still not dead. What am I missing?
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Don't fellate your 1/4" jacks.
 
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OOD said:
Why are people making a big deal about replacing 1/4" with speakon? Apparently 1/4" will kill you know but that never stopped people from using it in the past. Ive touched the metal on a 1/4" coming out of an amp many times and I'm still not dead. What am I missing?
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they lock :hs:
 
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OOD said:
Why are people making a big deal about replacing 1/4" with speakon? Apparently 1/4" will kill you know but that never stopped people from using it in the past. Ive touched the metal on a 1/4" coming out of an amp many times and I'm still not dead. What am I missing?
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There's an argument to be made for contact area. The 1/4" jack goes back to at least the early telephone system (also where we got the standardized rack space from). Couldn't buy a 1000 watt amp with a couple days pay back then.

In practice they still work just fine for what we do though.

I think Europe mandates speakon for anything over 500 watts or some such. Easier to just make em all the same to sell globally.
 
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I'm thinking about running my cabs in series. That would make the total load 8ohms. Using the portaflex 500 they should get 175 watts each. I'm 57% sure that is enough.
 
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Oh shit actually it'll proba ly be more like 150 watts into each cab. Damn
 
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The older you get, the more you'll appreciate the lighter bass. Jazz basses are usually notoriously heavy. Is yours made of basswood?
Balsa?
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It's obviously made of basswood... it's a bass.

It's a 2000 affinity crafted in China so it should be alder but who knows.
 
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