Barrel jack woes.

[Mincer]

Sounds like it, doesn't it? But nope, they were convinced they were living in the best time.

 

[ehdwuld]

as we humans do

we are always at the peak of innovation

until someone comes along and shows us something else


why do you need that loud smoky contraption when we have used perfectly good Horse and Buggy for Millennia

 

[Chistopher]

I don't think music sees innovation the same was as other fields do. The two categories of innovation are "Make it better" and "Make it different". Basically objective improvement versus subjective improvement. Music has an awful lot of innovations that don't make an improvement so much as they provide a change of scene.

The electric guitar is a great example. It was designed to make an acoustic guitar sound louder. Didn't do that in the slightest and did not improve anything about what people liked about guitar as it was back then. What it did do however is allow people access to a whole palette of sounds that didn't exist before. Not better or worse, just different and new.

 

[RanchManSandy]

filmakers and photographers at the time.

That's quite a bold generalization and I very much doubt many people actually thought that, how many innovations were happening at that time...

technicolor, blimping, ground glass focus, I could go on (sorry, I have a Minor in this stuff)

 

[Mincer]

I don't think music sees innovation the same was as other fields do. The two categories of innovation are "Make it better" and "Make it different". Basically objective improvement versus subjective improvement. Music has an awful lot of innovations that don't make an improvement so much as they provide a change of scene.

The electric guitar is a great example. It was designed to make an acoustic guitar sound louder. Didn't do that in the slightest and did not improve anything about what people liked about guitar as it was back then. What it did do however is allow people access to a whole palette of sounds that didn't exist before. Not better or worse, just different and new.

Individual innovations in the guitar world are pretty slow. Sure, there can be a better way to attach strings on a classical guitar, but it won't look like what we are used to, so it won't get made. "This is what I am used to, and this is how it has always been done" tends to limit the market for innovative products. There is a whole list of guitar-related things that could stand some innovation.

 

[Artie]

There has been a little innovation. The Pure Tone jack is nice, but it's a glorified Switchcraft. On the other hand is the QiJack which seems interesting, but I'm not sure I want to spend $40-something to try it.

https://www.fu-tone.com/product/qi-high-performance-output-jack/

 

[80's_Thrash_Metal]

There has been a little innovation. The Pure Tone jack is nice, but it's a glorified Switchcraft. On the other hand is the QiJack which seems interesting, but I'm not sure I want to spend $40-something to try it.

https://www.fu-tone.com/product/qi-high-performance-output-jack/

I almost got the pure tone one... Then I was like ...well what if it fails too ... So I just modified the guitar. Problem fixed.

 

[ehdwuld]

I love the pure tone jacks I have

They aren't barrel style but .....

I rarely have a barrel jack fail