Speaker jacks

[Pilgrim]

I have had 1/4" plugs blown right out of the jack in the speaker cab from the sound pressure waves.   I'm sure others have also.  Not the best thing for a tube amp.  Don't have much experience with Speakons so nothing to add there.

Dang!  I take it those weren't ported cabs.  They also had a lot of speaker excursion going on.

Never had that happen, personally.  Impressive.  Probably very loud.

[Dave W]

I've never had that happen either. Can't imagine it happening with a ported cab.

OTOH there's nothing that hard about using a Speakon connector.

[FrankieTbird]

Dang!  I take it those weren't ported cabs.  They also had a lot of speaker excursion going on.

Never had that happen, personally.  Impressive.  Probably very loud.

No, not a ported cab.  Probably only happens with sealed cabs.

[drbassman]

I've never had that happen either. Can't imagine it happening with a ported cab.

OTOH there's nothing that hard about using a Speakon connector.

They're just annoying to wire up and cost a bit much.

[godofthunder]

  I hate speakons. Over engineered  nuisance ! My Orange TB500 uses them, I have adaptors yo run my 1/4" outfitted c as b.

[godofthunder]

    I can't tell you how many times I have had road  crew,sound men or whoever mucking around behind my rig and tip my cables out. Usually easily repaired with a soldering iron. Can't do that with Speakons.

[Granny Gremlin]

I have had 1/4" plugs blown right out of the jack in the speaker cab from the sound pressure waves.   I'm sure others have also.  Not the best thing for a tube amp.  Don't have much experience with Speakons so nothing to add there.

I'm not even sure how that's possible unless its a shallow mount (standard bushing jack, vs long so as to be mounted in the cab wood directly) in one of them press fit jack plates (or maybe old, decaying, and low quality wood; I've seen cheap sealed 1x15s made out of such flimsy particle board).  Jack plates are horrible for a million reasons.  Without a jack plate, just put a larger washer under the nut on the inside and problem solved.

[Basvarken]

    I can't tell you how many times I have had road  crew,sound men or whoever mucking around behind my rig and tip my cables out. Usually easily repaired with a soldering iron. Can't do that with Speakons.

The Speakons that I have can be connected using just a small screw driver. I find that a lot easier to fix when you're on the road. I don't always have a soldering iron at hand.

[Aussie Mark]

The Speakons that I have can be connected using just a small screw driver. I find that a lot easier to fix when you're on the road. I don't always have a soldering iron at hand.

+1

Easiest connection in the world to wire up and make you own cables.

[Granny Gremlin]

Assuming that you trust screw terminals on things that move and get yanked/generally abused (I don't) vs static things like the back of patchbays and internals of rack gear (e.g. euroblock).