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Locking RCAs are the Devil's Spawn as far as I'm concerned. I've never had a seized normal RCA, whereas I've had seized locking ones. They are a pig to undo if they are tight on the back of a piece of equipment, so I've thrown away the few I've had.
Some RCA cables can really be a pain to remove from your audio equipemnt when it sits close to a back wall, near impossible. So locking RCA can be useful.
Look what some pair of (presumably non-locking... perhaps Monstrous) cables did to the CD input jacks on this poor, unsuspecting little Marantz PM-25 integrated amplifier.
Look what some pair of (presumably non-locking... perhaps Monstrous) cables did to the CD input jacks on this poor, unsuspecting little Marantz PM-25 integrated amplifier.
Look what some pair of (presumably non-locking... perhaps Monstrous) cables did to the CD input jacks on this poor, unsuspecting little Marantz PM-25 integrated amplifier.
Same thing happened to the RCA inputs of one my Stax headphone amps. They sure were not designed for these super tight RCA plugs that are so common these days.
Look what some pair of (presumably non-locking... perhaps Monstrous) cables did to the CD input jacks on this poor, unsuspecting little Marantz PM-25 integrated amplifier.