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<blockquote data-quote="andrew gissing" data-source="post: 15737" data-attributes="member: 75">Re: okay, so what would you ever use THIS for?Hi,well i&#039;ll give the answer. In some locations ir was common practice to use xlr connectors for speaker. Speakers would have a male connector; amp rack would be XLR male as well.Convention was to use a F-F xlr cable with only 2 pins connected - 1 &amp; 3 or 1 &amp; 2 depending (here in Oz it was 1 &amp; 3).So we&#039;ve got lots of F-F Xlr speaker cables but now we&#039;re seeing boxes with SpeakOn so.. we need an adpator. Adaptors useful for fixes but if I knew I was using SpeakOn cabs long term then I would make the proper cables.Of course the real proper way to do things would be to retro fit SpeakOn&#039;s to our existing cabinets, re-wire our amp racks and change the plugs on our existing cables. But who wants to do that if what you&#039;ve got is working already ?Andrew</blockquote>

[QUOTE="andrew gissing, post: 15737, member: 75"] Re: okay, so what would you ever use THIS for? Hi, well i'll give the answer. In some locations ir was common practice to use xlr connectors for speaker. Speakers would have a male connector; amp rack would be XLR male as well. Convention was to use a F-F xlr cable with only 2 pins connected - 1 & 3 or 1 & 2 depending (here in Oz it was 1 & 3). So we've got lots of F-F Xlr speaker cables but now we're seeing boxes with SpeakOn so.. we need an adpator. Adaptors useful for fixes but if I knew I was using SpeakOn cabs long term then I would make the proper cables. Of course the real proper way to do things would be to retro fit SpeakOn's to our existing cabinets, re-wire our amp racks and change the plugs on our existing cables. But who wants to do that if what you've got is working already ? Andrew [/QUOTE]

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