“This jack has made a massive improvement to the connection on my Squier Strat. It's now rock solid and crackle-free. Will definitely be fitting these to my other guitars.”
“These jacks are now standard fitment on my guitars. Whilst I don't subscribe to the 'improved tone' marketing talk, the extra contacts on these jack sockets make the electrical contact with the jack plug far more reliable in the long term. I've normally used Switchcraft jacks in the past and whilst these are very good, the PTT1 is better. Move the end of a jack plug around in a standard socket and it will move and you can sometimes get crackling or even loss of signal (depending on how fresh the tip spring is. Try and move a jack plug around in one of these and it won't. Having spring contacts for the sleeve/ground, as well as the tip/signal, does provide extra signal security. It also makes the jack less likely to pull out accidentally in use.
The tip springs are physically shorter than the tip spring on a Switchcraft socket, which can make fitting it in tight spaces (like a foil-lined Strat jack rout) a bit easier.
The length of the screw thread on the PTT1 is a couple of mm longer than on a Switchcraft (or metric generic jack socket), which is good if you have a thicker guitar body to feed it through, but does mean that when fixing direct to control plates/pickguards that you definitely need to use another nut and washer behind the plate/guard. Which is the one weakness of the PTT1 package as it only comes with a single nut and washer. The thread is the same imperial thread as Switchcraft use, so you can't re-use nuts and washers from any metric thread jacks you may be replacing. You can buy suitable nuts and washers, but its also the same thread as on standard CTS pots, so make sure you put aside any spare nuts and washers from those.”
