ScottW wrote:


The Monsters were are a real bitch to remove.



Was this a Monster "Turbine" connector? As Sander noted, they are a
real disaster. A friend had an experience similar to yours (the RCA
jack gave up before the connector did) with an upper end Denon (IIRC)
pre-amp about 10 years ago. It's the bad design of the connector, _not_
user error.