"N_Cook" wrote in message
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Gareth Magennis wrote in message
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It seems its a fault of Yamaha supplying 2 "long" leads only. Or this
owner
from new received only 2 "long" leads and no foot long lead. He got a
shop
to make up a foot long lead, and a long-long lead, nothing wrong with
the
job they did, unknowingly bad choice of elbows .



Well it sounds to me that the "shop" actually made a BAD and ignorant
choice
in the components they used, which ultimately cost the customer a lot of
money.

Doesn't sound like a good job to me at all. Particularly as they no
doubt
charged him for the priveledge.



Cheers,



Gareth.





with seventh sense of hindsight





I would have to disagree.
I have done a lot of professional wiring in my time, and if you absolutely
HAVE to use jacks for a speaker connection (a terrible choice for all sorts
of reasons) then you make sure the two connectors cannot ever touch each
other, either by using a proper jack plug (Neutrik) or by sleeving the
soldered terminals in such a way that they will always insulate against the
kind of problems you describe.

The shop it seems chose a crap jack plug and did not sleeve it, and charged
the customer for this terrible piece of work, which cost him a lot of money.


I wouldn't be best pleased.



Cheers,


Gareth.