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"Justin Ulysses Morse" wrote in message
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Dave Turner wrote:

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Subject: ITT Cannon - Contact Us
Date: Monday 17 Nov 2003 12:14 pm
From: Technical Query
To: '"


Hello David

As far as I know the XLR is just a series part number, it may have had
an
original meaning, however we have no info here on it.

regards

John Embleton
Technical Support
ITT Industries,
Cannon Connector Division,
Basingstoke.
UK

So that's the official answer.

Official? It's not even an answer. He might just as well have said,
"Who cares?" or "None of your damn business."

Ray A. Rayburn gives further information
which ties in with this at http://www.soundfirst.com/xlr.html which
gives

Now this explanation makes much more sense. But having been around the
internet awhile I have learned the important truth that just because a
story sounds plausible, or has been written, doesn't make it true.
This explanation has been repeated by a few other people but for all I
know they could have all gotten it from a single unreliable source.
Since every other explanation I've heard has been obvious bull****,
this is the one I'll choose to believe until I find evidence to
contradict it. Not that it really matters.

What does "NC3FD" stand for?

ulysses

I just happend across this, this morning. From
http://www.soundfirst.com/xlr.html

Richard


At one time Cannon (now ITT Cannon) made a large circular connector series
that was popular for microphones called the P series. Mics used the 3 pin P3
version. Some loudspeakers use the P4 or P8 versions of this connector to
this day.

In an attempt to make a smaller connector for the microphone market Cannon
came out with the UA series. These were "D" shaped instead of circular and
were used on such mics as the Electro-Voice 666, 666R, and 655C.

There was a desire for a smaller yet connector. Someone pointed out the
small circular Cannon X series. The problem with this was it had no latch.
Cannon rearranged the pins and added a latch, and the XL (X series with
Latch) was born. This is the connector others such as Switchcraft and later
Neutrik have copied.

Later Cannon modified the female end only to put the contacts in a Resilient
Rubber compound. They called this new version the XLR series. No other
company has copied this feature. It is amusing that XLR has become the
generic term since what everyone else copied was the XL and not the XLR!