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Location: Boise, Idaho | Not true. Most polls show used car salesman ahead of us on the most despised lists or least trusted lists. I bumped into a former lawyer who had his ticket pulled when he got convicted of a felony. He was selling cars.
I'd rather sell cars.
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Location: Sydney, Australia | OK enough OT. Back to the cables. I have a Lo Z connection on my Adamas but have never tried it. I understand the benefit is that I can plug in without draining my battery. From Al's ad for this I infer that I would need to plug something else in for it to work if I just used one of the Lo Z cables that are lying around in church (for use with microphones).
Q1: If I plug in with those cables, what will happen?
Q2: What exactly is the advantage of buying one of the one's Al is selling? |
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Location: closely held secret | You need a cable that has pin #1 tied to the outer shell. I've found that some cables have it, some don't. If you have an ohmmeter you can check a cable by seeing if pin #1 and the outer shell are shorted. Or, you could just try plugging in with one at church and ask them to turn the phantom power on and see if it works.
I assume the cables Al is selling have this configuration. |
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Location: NJ | Yes, they (the cables) do.
". . They didn't rank guitar salesmen . ."
That's because we do enough of that HERE. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I wondered about the phantom power. Neither of my acoustic amps have it. I guess I'll still need the dummy plug. I plug in about once a year. |
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Location: closely held secret | It's elusive. That's why they call it 'phantom' power. |
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Location: NJ | ". . I plug in about once a year . ."
Sounds like the ex . . . . |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Maybe I just haven't looked hard enough for the phantom power on my amps. I get a phantom radio station when I plug in the Ute, and something keeps turning on the 99 Collector's tuner and draining the battery, but no phantom power yet. |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | OK, Al if you're listening, and you have any of these cables left, toss one in the box with my '08 Collectors and add it on to my final bill in October. |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by Richard P.:
OK, Al if you're listening, and you have any of these cables left, toss one in the box with my '08 Collectors and add it on to my final bill in October. sure
just remind me. I am sure to have gone through another 12 or so by then |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Mine's "Out for delivery". I can't believe I'm tracking UPS for a stupid cable. Get a life, Mark. It's been awhile since I bought a guitar. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | It came. Al stooped really low this time. I complained about the lack of the famous beer wrapper, pizza box or New Jersey newspaper packing material in my OFC guitar box. This cable came packed with an old Guitar Digest, but it was "The Taylor Issue." Cheap shot, Al. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Probably looked at your tag line and noticed what you were missing :p |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | It works without a dummy plug or phantom power. Cool. I always thought that dummy plug idea was dumb. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Al ,
Your PM is full... |
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Location: NJ | i hate this pm system
email me
alpep@lostartvintage.com |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by alpep:
i hate this pm system DOH, then disable it in your profile... 
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Location: NJ | you need these
still some available |
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Ovation Lo Z cables
