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Default OK to use TV coax for microphone?


Phil Allison wrote:
"don pearce PITA smug ****** "
"Richard Crowley Arse Licker "
If you are trying to use a balanced
mic, then the cable is unsuitable because it is unbalanced.

** Not true at all !!

There is NO reason not to use a (suitable) co-axial type cable with a
microphone - either low or high impedance.

Despite all the nonsense you WILL have read elsewhere, co-axial cables
have as good or better rejection of external hum and noise sources as do
balanced twin wire cables.

Try it out if you don't believe this.

Of course a proper microphone cable is SCREENED balanced twisted pair,



** Exactly what I was referring to above.

Mic cable IS a balanced twin wire cable.


Having trouble spotting the capital letters, are you? (yes, I saw yours,
and that is what prompted this question, the relevance obviously passed
you by).


A poorly screened coax cable such as TV coax has only a part of the first
of those



** It ain't necessarily poorly screened and it ain't necessarily what I just
posted about.

Do learn to read sometime - ****wit.


we know exactly what this cable is - and yes it is poorly screened. Do
try to follow the threads. And if you want to post about something else,
start a new thread.


has only a part of the first of those ..



** Not true of co-axial cable in general.

Do learn to read sometime - ****wit.


so this claim is clearly nonsensical.

** Not at all -

your irrelevant & asinine claims are nonsensical

- ****wit.


If it were true, professional microphone and mixer companies would not be
going to the trouble of designing balanced kit.



** More completely irrelevant nonsense.


Irrelevant is it? Tell that to Neve, Neumann, Shure, Sennheiser, Leevers
Rich - need I go on?


" Despite all the nonsense you WILL have read elsewhere, co-axial cables
have as good or better rejection of external hum and noise sources as do
balanced twin wire cables. Try it out if you don't believe this. "

Obviously YOU need to do this too - ****wit.

Since you are so PIG ignorant of the basic physics of co-axial cable.


I appear to have a vastly better grasp of the topic than you, not
surprising really when you consider that I have designed ultra low noise
microwave measuring equipment.

d