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    Peavy curly cables

    A while back I bought a peavey curly cable and I used it for about a month until one day it just stopped working. I took it back and got another one, then after a week, the second one stopped working. I never did anything to it that could have ripped something inside. They both started cutting in and out for a minute then stopped all together.does anyone know why it would have done this. Its all very strange to me.
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    Re: Peavy curly cables

    mmm....cuz they suck? ;)

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    Re: Peavy curly cables

    Now you know why you never see any guitar players using curley cables.
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    Re: Peavy curly cables

    It happens more often to those "ma bell" style cords because the strain on the ends is greater than with a straight cord. Every time you move, the curly cable is bouncing and spinning and putting a great deal of stress on the plug end it's mounted too. A straight cable just lays there and induces no stress. A curly cable flops and bounces all over the place and the weight of the cable moving all over the place quickly causes a failure right where it mounts to the plug.
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    Re: Peavy curly cables

    Okay thanks. I've seen Hendrix and other cool guys playing with curly cables and I thought they looked really cool. Then I saw some at my local guitar store and I just needed to get it, but I think I'm done with 'em now ;)
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    Re: Peavy curly cables

    Hendrix makes everything look cool.
    I think I'll just stick to plain ol' straight cords now ;)
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    Re: Peavy curly cables

    but the hendrix tone is the curly cable...everyone who's anyone knows that!
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    Re: Peavy curly cables

    Quote Originally Posted by Southbound
    I think I'm done with 'em now.
    Good call.

    The curly cable is an inherently flawed concept = high capacitance, poor shielding, succeptibility to EMI and RFI, stressed connections, etc., etc.

    If they even had a prayer I'd be using them, as nobody on earth hates getting tangled up in cables more than I do.


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    Re: Peavy curly cables

    Curly fries = :yay

    Curly cables = :nay

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    Re: Peavy curly cables

    In fairness, in the '60s plain cables were just about as flexible as coathanger wire, always stiff and kinked and messed-up. Curly cords seemed a big improvement over straight cables. I found some of mine from those days a while back and I was appalled. I'd forgotten how bad they were.

    There is such a thing as progress, and after a few decades plastics developed enough so that flexibility and dialectric properties had made great strides. Plain cables are really a whole lot better now.
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    Re: Peavy curly cables

    Quote Originally Posted by Richard Hayes
    Curly fries = :yay

    Curly cables = :nay
    I dunno. Both of them get a thumbs down from me.

    What the hell is wrong with the flavor of a fried potato(e) that you have to add crap to it?
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    Re: Peavy curly cables

    Quote Originally Posted by Kap'n
    What the hell is wrong with the flavor of a fried potato(e) that you have to add crap to it?
    This is a question too deep for Sound Check.

    Frying potatoes just right is a high art, and the result has a half-life of about five minutes.

    I was just thinking about this for at least an hour the other night while lying in bed.
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    Re: Peavy curly cables

    The making of fries is an important art. when they are fried just right, nothing can stop you from gettin at em.
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    Re: Peavy curly cables

    Quote Originally Posted by Southbound
    The making of fries is an important art. when they are fried just right, nothing can stop you from gettin at em.
    They even make the same sound as curly cables when they're cooking.

    had to get back on track, y'know...
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    Re: Peavy curly cables

    But curly fries taste better than curly cables.
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    Re: Peavy curly cables

    Quote Originally Posted by Southbound
    But curly fries taste better than curly cables.
    Yes, but only marginally.:cb
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    Re: Peavy curly cables

    When my first curly cable stopped working, I just had to bite it. To teach all my other cables a lesson. Kinda tasted like curly fries, except more plasticy.
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