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About the only two things i could see that might need changes for it, are longevity of the connector (make it last more insertions) and maybe making it thinner
by simcop2387 11y ago
About the only two things i could see that might need changes for it, are longevity of the connector (make it last more insertions) and maybe making it thinner for devices that don't seem to want battery life in favor of being thinner/lighter.
Even then it'll still be a really hard sell because they've been improving the longevity for a half-century and it'll be hard for something else to come up to that kind of ease and reliability.
- ssalazar 11y agoI would love a standard that doesn't produce a loud pop when you plug it in to amplified speakers.
- simcop2387 11y agoI don't know if that can be done. There's going to be two causes to that, capacitance in the line you're plugging in or there being a DC offset from the device. The amplifier should filter out both of those in the long term pretty easily with some capacitive coupling. However that will lead to a sharp peak when you plug it in, that makes the speakers pop. You might be able to require a sense line however, and then the amplifier can keep a timed relay on the plug before it actually starts amplifying the signal.
- ssalazar 11y agoMy understanding is that 1/8" has this problem because it mates signal connections before ground, which is why its less common in RCA or XLR connections that mate ground at the same time or before signal. Also, a digital interconnect will not inherently have this problem.