RE: SCART Socket Question

[BUTLER, Tony, FM]

I agree it's going to mean bugger all in terms of connection quality
per-se.
The 'clever bit' was simply bowing the metal shield a bit to try to make it
grip the socket better.

It does that alright I guess, but because the rest of it is heavy cast
metal, the added weight somewhat negates the effectiveness of it :-(

'XLR' hah! I remember when ppl used to just call them 'Cannon plugs' :-)

What we need is for Keith to sell his KAT5 system to the Korean and
Taiwanese manufacturers so all HiFi equipment will come with balanced audio
RJ45 outputs so we can ditch the plethora of connectors we have at the
moment :-))

Tony

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Subject: RE: [KAT5] SCART Socket Question


> Indeed - deep joy :(

> What do u thing of QEDs SQUARTs? I had high hopes when I read about
them
first, but the reality is
> that SCART is such a crappy design that there's bugger all you can do
&amp;
even the SQUARTs slip out
> occasionally. It's annoying that they only slip out enough that you
lose
the left audio track, so SWMBO
> sits there watching TV, not realising that Paulie &amp; Peggy
should be yaking
in the CENTRE of the screen,
> not to the FAR RIGHT :-)

I can have no enthusiasm at all for anything SCART ... All of these cast
body SCART connectors are a waste of time! The important part of any
connector is the connector portion and in this respect the SCART connector
both sucks and blows (which is its only impressive feat!)

Hanging a heavy metal casing out from the back of what is inherently a weak
connector is not exactly the most intelligent plan in the world! Especially
when most SCART connectors have trouble holding the weight of the multiway
cable in the first place!

I cut my teeth on BNC and XLR connectors which are superb ... they have
positive locking mechanisms and work beautifully. Each time I look behind
my
AV stack at the SCART cables hanging out of the back of my O.D. Box, TiVo
and DVD player - all drooping at about 10degrees below the horizontal - and
I wish there was some way that I could loop a cable tie through something
to
pull them tight.

I hate SCARTs...

Phil