Re: [microsound] re: link: right angle adapter for 3.5mm plug

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Well the thing with Hosa is if a dealer has them there's a usually  
wide range of them and you can trust the overall quality to be good  
but not great.

The thing with Radio Shack is as I understand it they do just about  
everything by outsourcing. They come up with whatever specs they want  
for bids (or offer to look at whole new products) and if it meets  
their requirements then they buy huge quantities. So the thing is  
occasionally some company, possibly in Asia, has something ready to  
manufacture or even meant for another market that's decent and they  
know how to make whatever it is well, so you wind up with a bargain  
because of the quantities Radio Shack buys. For instance I'm thinking  
about those PZM mics years back or once reading in a major Stereo  
magazine that Realistic won their metal cassette tape test to their  
surprise. The reason was, because they were surprised enough they had  
to research it, it turned out they bought a higher end Japanese tape  
that had no American distribution and repackaged it.

Finally about cables not fitting correctly, there is some real issue  
worldwide with the specs to the so called "3.5 mm" plug.  Though I've  
never really researched it, it seems faster to just get another cable  
or at worse go inside and bend something. I wouldn't be surprised  
with it starting with the discrepancy being that 3.5mm isn't exactly  
1/8", though I'm pretty sure it has to do more with the length. 

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