1/4" Guitar Cable = Antique 19th Century / Apple Wants to Kill Phone Plugs

dmatthews said:
As a young phone guy I was taught about "Tip and Ring", the two connectors on the 1/4" mono phone plug.
Back then there were PBX trunks that were "ground start" where you'd need to apply a ground momentarily to the "ring" side of the line in order to "start" the dial tone.
So, polarity was critical throughout the connection all the way from the Central office to your premises.
40 years gone by I've seen/installed mechanical, electronic, digital, and now VOIP cloud systems. Few industries have seen such massive transformation. Now it's all about LAN, POE, Broadband, Servers, and SIP endpoints and softphones, none of which existed when I started.
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No face time for you then? :)
 
Amp Mad Scientist said:
As usual.

But do you think that since everybody's buying profilers, we should just plug in guitars with USB instead?
Shouldn't your guitar have a USB jack?
If you are gonna dump all the tube amps, why not dump the 19th century telephone plug too?
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My wife's in the phone biz


She's had the iPhone 13 for several months already.

My Galaxy s20+ blows that thing outta the water....lol
 
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