Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ais.org!tony From: tony@ais.org (Tony Poole) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio Subject: Re: Gender Changer for Perfect Sound Message-ID: Date: 8 Jun 91 19:56:27 GMT References: <16984@helios.TAMU.EDU> <17063@helios.TAMU.EDU> Organization: UMCC Lines: 65 aaron@stat.tamu.edu (Aaron Hightower) writes: >>There is no doubt in my mind that my gender changer is standard, as I have >>replaced it one time with an off the shelf packaged one. >And how, sir, are you certain that your parallel port still works with other >things? How do you know that you have not already damaged your machine? >I have known people to have connected things in improper ways only to find >that while the device improperly used is not affected, but other devices >are no longer operational (such as ParNet or a printer). Gee, maybe because I have used other things on the parallel port besides my Perfect Sound? Everything seems to work completely normal. Or maybe there is something wrong and I don't know about it? Yeah, right. >>Either SunRize has changed the design since I bought mine, or they are trying >>to get you to buy the gender changer from them. >I'm not sure that SunRize even charges for the adapter. Maybe you should >check that out if you are interested. I didn't have to pay extra for mine... I'm not interested, I just stated what I was doing. >Tony, if you want to risk ruining your hardware, I think most will agree that >this is your right. Do not risk other's hardware. Please do not. You >don't have the right to suggest that what you have done to your machine >will not harm someone elses machine just because it seems to work okay for >you. I'm not ruining my own hardware. I know other people that connect a standard gender changer between their Perfect Sound and their Amiga *1000*, so it's not just me. I tried to locate the instructions I recieved with my Perfect Sound, but I couldn't find them. Regardless, I always read through instructionsthouroughly before connecting anything to my Amiga, and I am certain that I would not have connected it improperly. As a matter of fact, I believe the dealer that I bought it from also sold me the gender changer, so I doubt that he would have recomended hooking it up wrong. I'm not risking anybody's hardware, just stating what I am doing (and other people). I have the right to suggest anything I want to suggest, and other people have the right to ignore what I say...I wish you would. >Aaron Hightower >Disclaimer: > Maybe I am wrong. Maybe SunRize is just trying to make a fast buck for >those who don't have gender changers. But, still, this is a bad practice >to say "I hooked it up and it works, why don't you try it...?" Sheeesh! Again, I *always* read instructions. If it is hooked up with a standard gender changer, I would bet my life that that is the way the instructions indicated to do it. This doesn't mean there haven't been any design changes in the cable of the *new* Perfect Sound's. OK? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tony Poole Traverse City, MI USA EMail:tony@irie.ais.org ____________________________________________________________________________