XLR Connector Gender

[Bob Quintal]

"Bob Quintal"


** Hello Bob, have not heard from you in a while.

Despite what the mind readers here may say, I am very familiar
will the XLR and XLP series of connectors. Since the 1960s, there
was a plant making them in Australia and there is still one making
them under the Alcatel name.

XLPs came first and were used for many jobs, including
microphones. I think Shure were the first to put a 3 pin XLP style
male socket on the bottom of a mic. Then everyone followed.

The XLR series has some soft material surrounding females pins -
mainly so that when mated with a male version, there is no
looseness or movement. Important with hand held mics to prevent
unwanted noises.

Switchcraft had the same idea for microphones, they but used
sprung steel balls instead to eliminate movement plus a very
smooth external contour for user comfort. Overkill really.

The only places I see 4 pin XLRs or XLPs being used is on headsets
for talkback stations and a few PSUs for mixing desks - the later
sometimes having 5 pins versions. So I keep a few of each on hand.

I have a couple of AKG D19E microphones that have 5 pin XLRs,
allowing impedance selection.

I have an RCA stereo mic with a 5 pin XLR for left and right.

Far better than the old Electrovoice and Shure mics that used
Ampjenol screw-on connectors.

BTW: I think the Neutrik versions are mostly flimsy and horrible.

Amen.

 

[Jamie]

It isn't "stainless steel", idiot.

Really? I have a few with stainless steel cells. You might as well
add me to your list.

Jamie

 

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"Phil Allison"


** Not pro audio gear, for sure.

Wrong, again, as always.

Post proof if you still disagree.

*Proof*? Don't be absurd.

** LOL - math is not you strong suit.

There are **2 more pins ** that can be a few things, in pro audio.

The body, idiot.

 

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Your strong suit is ignorance.




They are available with more than three pins. Switchcraft makes 3, 4,
5, 6, and 7 pin versions.

http://switchcraft.com/productsummary.aspx?Parent=461

As usual, you judge everything by what little you know. I know of
some radio & TV stations that use 4 pin on everything, so people don't
steal their cables at remotes. The earlier audio connectors they used
were large, oddball, expensive and a royal PITA to assemble without
losing parts.

They also have the housing, which *is* used. ...and everyone has a
different idea of what it should be used for.

 

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Neutrik is cheap and better than most.

yeh, the Neutrik is so much easier to assemble and the strain relief
is
brilliant

seems switch craft has learned: http://www.switchcraft.com/Drawings/AAA_MZ SERIES CD.PDF


-Lasse

 

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Switchcraft isn't cheap, but some 'pros' equate cheap with quality.
Some brag that they can assemble them without tools. That never
interested me. It also means that people can get into them without
tools to damage your equipment.

We used mostly Neutrik because they were a lot cheaper and "good
enough". Every once in a while we got some Chinese Neutrik
knock-offs, though.

I have 40 year old Switchcraft that are still in good shape. I've
had people drive over the cast zinc connector shells on blacktop, and
all it did was scratch the plating. I've see all kinds of Canon,
Amphenol and cheap brands that were cracked. The early Japanese copies
of Amphenol were real crap. The screws would strip out from just using
the plugs, and they crappy, flaking plating on the pins made poor
contact. The first I saw was in some Midland audio gear in 1970.

No one makes stuff like they did 40 years ago.

 

[Charlie E.]

I can too. James H. Cannon designed several series of connectors,
including the XL and, later, the XLR.


The IEC spec you refer to was created many years after the XLR-3 had
become the de facto standard in pro audio.

Go tally me bananas.

A friend of mine had a problem, and he needed a connector to mate with
the five pin XLR on his keyboard. I looked and looked, and finally
found a five pin female XLR plug, went to repair his keyboard, and
realized that he didn't need it! Instead of a five pin male panel
mount, what he had was the remains of a five pin female panel mount,
with the heart of the connector pulled out!

It had taken me months to find that connector...

 

[Phil Allison]

Wrong, again, as always.


*Proof*? Don't be absurd.

** No proof is needed that YOU are a congenital LIAR.

**** off - you stinking criminal TROLL !!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[MrTallyman]

Yeah, those PLASTIC shells have to have a great use in the industry in
environs they were designed to be used in. NOT.

I prefer the original Switchcraft version.

Cannon was the inventor, NOT Switchcraft, so there is nothing original
about their licensed replication of the Cannon technology.

Talk about brand centric dorkism!

 

[MrTallyman]

I've

Recruit "people" for stupid tasks on a regular basis, do ya?

And yes, idiot, ZINC or MAGNESIUM BOTH can handle it, but the rock in
the road IS harder than both metals, so BOTH will get scratched, abraded,
bent, or whatever the world has for them.

Your stupid remark proves that you do not no much about physics.

 

[Lord Valve]

"Bob Quintal"

** Hello Bob, have not heard from you in a while.

Despite what the mind readers here may say, I am very familiar will the XLR
and XLP series of connectors. Since the 1960s, there was a plant making them
in Australia and there is still one making them under the Alcatel name.

....

There are some rather nice ones branded Amphenol
coming out of Oz lately. I'm using quite a few of the
1/4" for guitar leads.

LV

 

[Phil Allison]

"Lord Valve"

There are some rather nice ones branded Amphenol
coming out of Oz lately. I'm using quite a few of the
1/4" for guitar leads.

** Yes, I should have said "'Amphenol" - the name changed quite a while
back.

See:

http://www.amphenolaudio.com/about.html

and

http://www.amphenolaudio.com/



..... Phil

 

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** No proof is needed that YOU are a congenital LIAR.

More proof that you're a total moron.

**** off - you stinking criminal TROLL !!!!!!!!!!!!

Admission of stupidity accepted.

 

[Phil Allison]

"John Larkin"

We use them for defrost heaters on superconductive magnets, 120 volts
at 1 amp. They are rated for something crazy like 15 amps, which must
compute to some impressive SPL out of a dynamic microphone.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/53724080/Parts/L950_Defrost.jpg

** A very poor and unsafe choice for use with mains voltages, has inadequate
insulation and no agency approvals.

The "PowerCon" is the preferred and safe connector for that kind of job.

http://www.neutrik.com/en/industrial/powercon/powercon-20-a/nac3mpa-1

http://www.neutrik.com/en/audio/powercon/powercon-20-a/nac3fca



.... Phil

 

[Phil Allison]

"John Larkin"
"Phil Allison"

Too late! It's passed all the tests.

** What a load of bullshit.



..... Phil