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What Does "XLR" Mean? -- Official Answer
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What Does "XLR" Mean? -- Official Answer
But a BNC fits a TNC well enough to inser test equipment into a feedline.
David Morton wrote: In article , (ChuxGarage) wrote: Actually, I'm told that BNC stands for "Bayonet N Connector." If you inspect an "N" connector, you will see that the inside closely resembles a BNC but it has a huge external screw on ring to secure it. The BNC uses a much smaller bayonet ring to secure it. If that were true, then the TNC (the BNC's sibling) would stand for "Threaded N Connector", which makes no sense at all, since it wouldn't differentiate the TNC from the original N connector (and they're not even slightly compatible). |
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What Does "XLR" Mean? -- Official Answer
In article znr1069956960k@trad, Mike Rivers wrote:
In article writes: If that were true, then the TNC (the BNC's sibling) would stand for "Threaded N Connector", which makes no sense at all That's why, as folklore has it, the T stands for "Tiny." But there are even smaller coax connectors. N, BNC, and TNC connectors all fit together to a certain extent. And C connectors will fit into PL-259 UHF connectors if you bang them together with vise-grips and wrap them in duct tape. But there will be an impedance mismatch at the join. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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What Does "XLR" Mean? -- Official Answer
Next question: What does "N" stand for?
Why, it's the connector that prreceeded the "P" connector, :-) Of course, I've never seen an "O" connnector...... |
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What Does "XLR" Mean? -- Official Answer
On 26 Nov 2003 20:37:20 -0500, (Mike Rivers)
wrote: In article 9B5xb.230431$mZ5.1739458@attbi_s54 writes: The question is similar to the question of what BNC or DVD stands for. BNC actually stands for something. B stands for bayonet. NC might be Navy Connector (but that doesn't make a whole lot of sense). I think it's Bayonet Neil-Concelman, they invented that. Edi Zubovic, Crikvenica, Croatia |
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What Does "XLR" Mean? -- Official Answer
On 18 Nov 2003 21:03:30 -0500, (Mike Rivers)
wrote: In article writes: How would we ever be able to get this right when JBL was making RED the negitive on thier speakers!!! My father (before I was born) worked as an electrician in a shipyard, and wired up a bunch of pyrometers backwards because his boss insisted that the red wire was positive and told him to wire them that way. The other (the real positive) wire was white. Didn't matter (to the boss) what the instruction sheet said. He knew better. That's prettly like like in an old French comedy movie I don't remember the title but there has been a burglar instructed by his boss to conecct "red wire to red wire, black wire to black wire" and he kept repeating all the way "red to red, black to black, red to red, black to black" etc. Of course, the wires were blue and white Edi Zubovic, Crikvenica, Croatia |
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What Does "XLR" Mean? -- Official Answer
William Sommerwerck wrote:
I even have at least one old XL connector. Yup, hard plastic insert. But I've bought XLRs with hard inserts. In fact, I don't ever remember seeing one with a flexible insert. Genuine * Cannon * XLRs have rubber inserts. Graham |
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What Does "XLR" Mean? -- Official Answer
Dave Turner wrote:
Al Gershen wrote: I've searched over the Internet and I haven't been able to find a defination for what the letters "XLR" mean. Can you help me? http://www.denecke.com/prod04.htm#AD20 http://www.proav.de/index.html?http&...R_history.html They seem to agree. X series connector - modified to add a Latch - with Resilent Rubber insert. Graham |
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What Does "XLR" Mean? -- Official Answer
Mike Rivers wrote:
In article 9B5xb.230431$mZ5.1739458@attbi_s54 writes: The question is similar to the question of what BNC or DVD stands for. BNC actually stands for something. B stands for bayonet. NC might be Navy Connector (but that doesn't make a whole lot of sense). In the case of DVD, we're fortunate. Most of us were around when the acronym was invented and know the history. DVD stands for "Digital Video Disc." Digital Versatile Disc was simply a revision applied when the disc began to be used for other purposes. My recollection was that it was the other way around. The original name was Digital Versatile Disk, but since the primary application (for the masses) was for video, people who never knew otherwise figured that it stood for Digital Video Disk, and there you are. That's my recollection too. Especially as it wasn't initially designed as a purely video format. People who want to use the other versatile applications prefer their geekier names - DVD-ROM/RAM, DVD-A, and so on. +R / -R etc. I've given up trying to understand them all. Just hope the drive manufacturers settle on something finally. Graham |
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What Does "XLR" Mean? -- Official Answer
Edi Zubovic wrote:
On 27 Nov 2003 15:18:21 -0500, (Scott Dorsey) wrote: And C connectors will fit into PL-259 UHF connectors if you bang them together with vise-grips and wrap them in duct tape. But there will be an impedance mismatch at the join. --scott Ouch. I have UHF to BNC adaptors on my oldie Hartmann Braun oscilloscope from the fifties. I *had* some on an old valve /tube Tektronix scope many many yrs ago. Had a pair of 545s. One had BMCs on the plug ins, the other didn't. Edi Zubovic, Crikvenica, Croatia Once, someone asked whether a VHS cassette would fit into the Beta recorder. The answer has been, yes. With a hammer and once only. Lol ! Ever tried getting a Beta tape out of a Betacam machine when it gets stuck ? Graham |
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What Does "XLR" Mean? -- Official Answer
intifada wrote:
"S O'Neill" wrote What does it mean on an XLR-5? Well, I managed to track down Robert the Robot to ask him, but he insists that Fireball XL-5 had nothing to do with recording equipment, but maybe Gerry Anderson was onto something way back then.... Holy Smoke ! I used an XL-5 to connect the PSU to the first desk I ever designed ! Graham |
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Richard Crowley wrote:
"Mike Rivers" wrote ... My father (before I was born) worked as an electrician in a shipyard, and wired up a bunch of pyrometers backwards because his boss insisted that the red wire was positive and told him to wire them that way. The other (the real positive) wire was white. Didn't matter (to the boss) what the instruction sheet said. He knew better. The wire colors of traditional thermocouples indicate which type they are (J, K, etc.) and coincidentally also the "polarity". They have never followed the electronics tradition of black= negative, red=positive. And just to confuse matters, K type thermocouples have just changed from brown and blue conductors with a yellow plug to green and white conductors with a green plug ! What is all that about ? Graham |
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What Does "XLR" Mean? -- Official Answer
ChuxGarage wrote: So, both Americans and Europeans were inconsistent between microphones and everything else Back in the 1970's I attended the AES Convention where the membership voted to adopt the standard of "Pin 2 Hot." This was done largely at the request of the groups UK and European members. Up until this point, most American gear was wired Pin 3 hot. This change of convention to the new standard was very inconvenient, but viewed by most in the US as something we simply had to do. Or so we thought. Shortly after the new convention was adopted, many UK manufacturers, Soundcraft and Midas among others, started delivering consoles with "Pin 3 Hot." I've owned several of them. What possessed them to switch is still a mystery to me. From memory it was to make them compatible with US equipment ! Back then, the newer low cost ( compared to Neve say ) UK mixer manufacturers were almost a cottage industry. I doubt many were AES members originally. Some were even wired with balanced inputs, pin two positive, but outputs unbalanced pin 3 hot. The question of whether pin two was connected to ground or just left floating, connected to nothing at all was also un-standardized. Some were, some weren't. You see, in those days it was fairly common to have balanced inputs and unbalanced outputs via an XLR. Indeed. This made for many years of confusion, and the need to carry around lots of polarity reversing adapters am "magic" adapter cables to make things work. You younger guys take a lot for granted these days when you buy a workable mixer for well under $500, and everything is more or less like it should be. It wasn't always the case. Lol, Graham |
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What Does "XLR" Mean? -- Official Answer
"T. Day" wrote:
Did anyone actually anwer the original question? See my recent post. Even if it's not right ( although it sounds v convincing ) it seems to be the adopted answer. Graham |
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What Does "XLR" Mean? -- Official Answer
Mike Rivers wrote:
In article writes: Did anyone actually anwer the original question? Yes. It's a part designation. It doesn't have to mean anything, and apparently it doesn't, thought it seems to be in the same family as the part designation for other connectors that have some similarities. Like the popular IC, the 5534. What does that mean? Especially as the 5532 is the dual version. At least Texas made more sense with TL071, 2 and 4. Graham |
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What Does "XLR" Mean? -- Official Answer
Geoff Wood wrote:
"William Sommerwerck" wrote in message ... Did anyone actually anwer the original question? Yes. It's a part designation. It doesn't have to mean anything, and apparently it doesn't, thought it seems to be in the same family as the part designation for other connectors that have some similarities. Like the popular IC, the 5534. What does that mean? But "XLR" looks as if it might be an initialization. 5534 doesn't and isn't. And the 'NE' before '5534' definitely is . NE is / was the standard prefix used by Signetics for linear ICs. No idea what that stands for. No Equivalent ? he joked. At least National's LM stands for Linear Monolithic. Graham |
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What Does "XLR" Mean? -- Official Answer
Richard Crowley wrote: "J. Joyce" wrote ... ... It is also interesting to note that ITT/Cannon no longer manufactures the Cannon XLR connectors (or so I have heard). Perhaps in the USA. But I still see what appear to be new "ITT/Cannon Japan" connectors on audio and video equipment from Sony (for example). The classic desgn with the rubber insulator in the female variety. Yup. Me too. Some were made by Cannon Australia too. I believe they sold the patent to Switchcraft. If they did (which I kinda' doubt), it wasn't exclusive. I recall a significant period when Cannon (and then ITT/ Cannon) were still selling XLRs even after Switchcraft started selling their equivalent version. For years and years and years. Another poster reminded me that Amphenol made a version for a while too. Beware of some cheap Asian copies of the Switchcraft style. I've seen some where the pins 2 and 3 are incorrectly numbered ! OTOH, I concur that "XLR" was just an arbitrary part number from Cannon. Any nmemonic or acronynomic associations were invented after the fact by users out in the field and had nothing to do with the original name/numbers. X connector with Latch and Resilient rubber insert. Predated by the XL which didn't have the rubber insert. Graham |
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What Does "XLR" Mean? -- Official Answer
Justin Ulysses Morse wrote:
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? Neutrik Connector 3 pin Female ummm..... Graham |
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