Neutrik silentPLUG - How it works

See inside and understand the Reed-Switch-Technology

[@RogerLucey1]

Mine has just stopped working after a about 3 months of use. Open circuit and very frustrating

[@guitartec]

It's funny that Neutrik hasn't responded to anyone here with the info they just told me... Supposedly there has been updates to this plug in 2013 & 2014. The more current date codes of F or G have these updates. They didn't tell me what the updates are and if it has to do with the actual reed switch or the mechanical actuator. The problem I was having was ONLY with the 90º Silent plugs. The tips would become cocked if a guitar would rest on it, so the actuator collar would get jammed, leaving the signal on when removed from the guitar. I've never had an internal reed switch failure like the people below are claiming, and I have sold a lot of these plugs over the last year.

[@max17-c4f]

Works great😊😊

[@stephencanfield]

Thanks for trying to innovate Neutrik...but it needs to go back to the lab for more durability testing.

[@peterk15]

I've had 2 of them and both stopped working after few months. Wasted money.

[@erwinroman4217]

Tried them and they failed. They don't short consistenly like they're supposed to when unplugged. Sometimes they're silent, sometimes they're just like a normal plug. On the same guitar.

[@adolfomontenegro944]

Greetings to all, help please help,,, Excellent product, The cable has 3 wires, I need to weld and convert to 2 lines, but when joining 2 gives me noise what should I do ?, how to solder the cables?

[@danfuerthgillis4483]

For all the naysayers, this system is shit clearly but IT IS what I invented years ago and I mine worked but the switch was external . This is something that should of always been designed right from the beginning of guitar cabling, but some dumb person asked the question and the guys in the Lab coats who could not change a tire to save their life IGNORED that dumb person. My system works because it uses a simple transistor LOL. which makes it impractical for unplugging and plugging all the time due to the size, but it did work and still works. It looks like we are inventing new things to fix the things from the past . This is the danger when you don't listen to people, 50 years later "shit that janitor who cleaned the Lab back in the 60's was right after all". We are now fixing and inventing to fix what was invented decades ago. Guitar cables in my opinion along with Guitars and Audio equipment was always made with the mentality of "For pro's only". These electronics were never designed with the consumer mind to the electrical system isolation, filtering, protection, sound fidelity etc. It is 2017 and we still need 1930's ISO transformers to clean up hum and ground loops. I am sorry to say it but that is joke for all Audio Equipment companies. All these technicians and Engineers and we are still having to buy band aids for simple things. Look inside your Amp , Laptop, Computer, Camera, Digital interfaces, you will find components from the 1970's still being used just smaller. These components like Resistors, Caps, Diodes all should of been phased out decades of ago and we should of gone to simple Phase switching for most of those components. Sadly the consumer is always a decade behind the current best tech.

[@bombthesystemsnl]

but this can also be done with stereo jack right?