When did Speakon jacks appear on amps?

[Axtman]

When did amp manufacturers start manufacturing their amps with Speakon jacks?

[Jeff Scott]

IIRC, sometime in the mid '90s.

[bottomzone]

Originally Posted by Jeff Scott

IIRC, sometime in the mid '90s.

Gallien Krueger pioneered the use of speakon jacks.

http://www.instituteofbass.com/archi...llien_krueger/


A Groove is a Terrible Thing to Waste!

[jelwood]

Yee yeeuh, bottomzone knows his stuff. Go GK!

[BillyIVbass]

I'm wondering when the 1/4" cable failed? Cheap/works

[billfitzmaurice]

Originally Posted by BillyIVbass

1/4" cable...Cheap

True

works

Not very well. The shortcomings of 1/4" for speakers, including short-circuiting amp outputs, are well documented.

[R Baer]

Originally Posted by BillyIVbass

I'm wondering when the 1/4" cable failed? Cheap/works

The 1/4" cable was was developed for use in the original telephone patch bays. It was never designed to handle high powered amplification and has been way too slow in going away in our industry. If you really want to know how bad 1/4" cables really are, try taking a jack, inserting a 1/4" cable into and just look at the amount of surface are contact that occurs between the cable and the jack. Definitely not good for a 1000watt bass amplifier! The speakON is a far superior cable.

[s_mcsleazy]

yeah i pulled my bassman into a rehersal space last week, forgot my speeker lead 1/4 went up to ask for one and got called a old fashioned tw@t

[Adam Bomb]

I didn't used to care. And then I fried my cab's 1/4 in. inputs. (Plugged cab in while amp was on - my bad.) The speakon still worked. Good on Avatar for including both.

--Bomb