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> you can't unplug them without shorting the signal to ground. Wrong. This is evidence of a cheaply desigined output circuit. There are many jacks that inclu
by rplst8 10y ago
> you can't unplug them without shorting the signal to ground.
Wrong. This is evidence of a cheaply desigined output circuit. There are many jacks that include muting switches. They are spring loaded, and when contact is lost, a muting circuit is enabled.
And, if you are disconnecting the source side first, that is your problem not the jack's. Any analog connection disconnected source side first could result in this behaivor. It can be mitigated by some circiut on the amplifier side that detects a loss of connection. The technology exists, some cheaper electronics just fail to implement it.
Noise on disconnection could happen with a digital circuit too if the designer of the amplifier/speaker fails to account for that case.
- Faaak 10y ago> And, if you are disconnecting the source side first, that is your problem Sadly, people don't care.. Also, my jack is connected to my speakers from behind. I don't want to bend my arm in strange positions every time I want to disconnect the jack.
- rplst8 10y agoTrue, they don't care. They do care about price, and when/if digital interconnects become the norm, don't expect the cheap implementations to handle the loud pop on disconnect situation any better.