We - and as far as I know all other manufacturers that were using the 3.5 mm
Cliff sockets S6PC - have changed to a revised version of the Cliff sockets
many years ago (I think it was in 2001). Especially Bob Williams of Analogue
Systems/UK and I intervened at Cliff to obtain sockets with better contacts
(stronger spring). As far as I know the contact problems have been solved
since the revised Cliff sockets are in use - at least we had no more
complaints since that time.

Best wishes
Dieter Doepfer

> Hello everyone!,
>
> I am planning to mod my Oberheim TVS1 somewhat by putting out many of the

SEMs'

> internal patchpoints on 3.5mm jacks along the upper edge of the

instrument. For this I

> was just about to order a bunch of Cliff S6 jacks, but as I understand

from browsing this

> forum those jacks were the cause of some problems in earlier A100 modules.

So my

> question is: Have the Cliff S6 jacks become better since, or did Doepfer

just change to

> another model Am I safe to use them on my project or should I look for

another maker of jacks

>
> Thank you for your time [and sorry for being slightly offtopic],
> Henrik Medquist