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Post subject: Question about Blues Junior speaker cable
Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 5:58 pm
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I'm running my BJr thru an attenuator. The stock cable that goes from the speaker to the amp is very short. Does anyone know where to get a longer cable? It is a standard 1/4" on the amp end but has two little flat connectors on the speaker end.

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Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 7:33 pm
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Check at a local Pro-Audio store.

- you could always make your own...
Buy a new speaker cable cut it to length and splice the connections
onto the appropriate wires. I like to solder the wires to the speaker
connections, makes for a better connection.

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Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 8:07 pm
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Hello Dmanes,

I just made a 20 ft extension.

Got the speaker wire and 2 sets of
male/female connectors so there was no
changes made to the existing cable.

Plugged the extension into the existing cable
other end into the speaker and Wahla.

Works like a charm.

Cheers.


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Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 6:21 pm
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Mr. Bill your advice is the easiest method, but I want both Dmanes & you to be aware that if a male & female connector setup mistakenly comes apart there will be no speaker load at all. When an output transformer has no speaker load at all on it, it gets very very unhappy. That is why you NEVER want to run an amp without the speaker attached.

I also don't like the "flat connectors" on the speaker end because over time they get loose or the wire breaks at the crimped end of the terminal and causes the amp not to recognize the speaker load.

just thought this was worth mentioning

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Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 6:35 pm
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Hello #1Stratman,

Thanks for the advice, thats some good info.
I'll put some heat shrink tubing on it for
more lasting protection. I may even solder
the darn thing together.

Cheers.


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Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 7:12 pm
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Thanks Stratman and MrBill for the good info. I went into my local guitar shop and the tech said if I picked up the flat spade connectors at Radio Shack, he would make me a cable for $20. I thought that was reasonable, but when I returned with the connectors, he said it would be $50. $20 was for the labor. Too rich for my blood, so I'm gonna make my own...maybe just an extension like MrBill did. Otherwise, if I make a completely new cable, I think I'll solder it to the speaker. I agree that I don't want to take a chance of it working its way loose.


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Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 8:11 am
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You ought to tell folks which local guitar shop that was. They don't deserve another single customer !

You need a couple of dollar's worth of plug soldering to a dollar's worth of cable...five minutes tops.


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