SSLtech
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Every week or two, I get yet another Countryman DI box on my bench.
There's never anything wrong with them, apart from the occasion where there was a wire which had been torn off one, coming from the "block" to the switch... probably torn off when the battery was being changed.
The whole thing seems to be centered around Countryman's unfathomable (to me at least) habit of not wiring the two ¼" sockets in parallel. I can't see why they do what they do... it leads to people thinking that the DI box doesn't work, because they plugged into the wrong ¼" socket... then they don't try the other socket because they're sure that the other socket shouln't be used becasue of the labelling...
Anyone else ever had this? I must have had 200 "dead countryman DI" reports, and only once an actual problem... the aforementioned broken wire.
Keith
There's never anything wrong with them, apart from the occasion where there was a wire which had been torn off one, coming from the "block" to the switch... probably torn off when the battery was being changed.
The whole thing seems to be centered around Countryman's unfathomable (to me at least) habit of not wiring the two ¼" sockets in parallel. I can't see why they do what they do... it leads to people thinking that the DI box doesn't work, because they plugged into the wrong ¼" socket... then they don't try the other socket because they're sure that the other socket shouln't be used becasue of the labelling...
Anyone else ever had this? I must have had 200 "dead countryman DI" reports, and only once an actual problem... the aforementioned broken wire.
Keith