Re: why wall warts?

[lance glover <baumhaus@earthlink.net>]

Matt Davignon wrote:

> By the way, what's with these fat plugs? All of my older Electro-Harmonix
> effects have the regular AC plugs just like anything else in my house. 
>Now
> that they're being made again, they come with those annoying fat plugs. 
>How
> was that necessary? Newer versions of things are supposed to be smaller 
>and
> more convenient! The fact that my older pedals were built with those nice
> small plugs seems to prove that those fat plugs aren't really necessary! 
>They
> could simply put the AC to DC adaptor right inside the pedal! It would 
>make
> the pedal a little bigger, but it would be a lot nicer!

i read somewhere (possibly this list) that most signal processor 
manufacturers
don't build in a power supply these days because 1. it is cheaper and 2. it
helps with overseas marketability...

lance g.