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Topic: IEC has banned banana plugs?
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centaur57
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posted December 25, 2008 02:36 PM
   
I read on this webpage:
http://www.bocchtech.com/bocchinoaudio/m16s.htm
...that the use of banana plugs is banned in all IEC-compliant countries.
Is this true? What is the rationale?
Thanks.
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dljacob
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posted December 25, 2008 10:15 PM
That link is an ad for someone's product. Is that the purpose of the post? Or a bad link?
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Graz
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posted December 25, 2008 10:42 PM
I heard this almost a decade ago. It was to protect the Swiss from their mains plugs or something! Nino's website is full of exciting things, good posts (when available) as well... tc-g
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William Kucharski
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posted December 26, 2008 03:36 AM
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Originally posted by Graz:
I heard this almost a decade ago. It was to protect the Swiss from their mains plugs or something!
That's exactly it - in some European countries banana plugs, are the same plug as used in AC outlets and worse yet, the "stereo pair" spacing was exactly the same. This is why audio makers had to alter their post spacing a few years back if they accepted bananas, so that kiddies wouldn't plug the speaker cables into the wall.
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narkotic
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posted December 26, 2008 09:30 AM
Nothin' like the sound of 50/60hz running through a 18" subwoofer! Ah, the good ol' days of car audio.
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Groove-T
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posted December 27, 2008 02:30 AM
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Originally posted by William Kucharski:
This is why audio makers had to alter their post spacing a few years back if they accepted bananas, so that kiddies wouldn't plug the speaker cables into the wall.
bose demonstrated once the 901 doing this to show the speaker is impossible to kill by power ! but i have also seen that people connected the amplifier output to the wall output while the amp was switched on.
this is the easiest way to change semiconductors into conductors 
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