Re: Should this be offensive?

From: necoandjeff (spam_at_schrepfer.com)
Date: 11/25/04 

Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 02:06:32 GMT

Cindy wrote:
> necoandjeff wrote:
>
>> Sean Holland wrote:
>>
>>> Should this be offensive?
>>>
>>> "Microphone cables, unlike guitar
>>> cables, use a female connector on one
>>> end and a male connector on the
>>> other. This enables microphone cables
>>> to be daisy-chained, hooked end to
>>> end, to increase length when necessary.
>>> This requires a very narrow tolerance
>>> for size and pin locations in the
>>> connectors, to ensure that the female
>>> XLR (the one with the locking
>>> mechanism) will lock and unlock
>>> when mated to its male counterpart.
>>> Complicating these problems is
>>> one manufacturer in America who
>>> uses English measurements, a lot of
>>> oriental copiers who have approximated
>>> the English measurement
>>> with metric measurements, and the
>>> manufacturers who are not copiers
>>> and make great, $B!H(Bto spec$B!I(B connectors
>>> using metric measurements.
>>> Yup! You guessed it. There are
>>> compatibility problems. Furthermore,
>>> there are some budget minded
>>> equipment manufacturers who will
>>> use oriental knockoffs in their back
>>> panels, exacerbating the problem."
>>
>>
>> Of course it is! All that male and female connector talk? You should
>> be ashamed for even posting this to a family-oriented ng like slj
>> Sean.
>>
>
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>
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