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What Does "XLR" Mean? -- Official Answer
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? Dear Group, This topic doesn't seem to have arisen for quite a while, but I was asked this recently and did a bit of digging on usenet. Not trusting what I heard (there were a whole load of different answers, all claiming to be authoritative), I asked Cannon/ITT what the acronym XLR stands for and they replied with the following: ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- 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 ************************************ If this email is not intended for you, or you are not responsible for the delivery of this message to the addressee, please note that this message may contain ITT Privileged/Proprietary Information. In such a case, you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. You should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Information contained in this message that does not relate to the business of ITT is neither endorsed by nor attributable to ITT. ************************************ ----------------------------------------- So that's the official answer. Ray A. Rayburn gives further information which ties in with this at http://www.soundfirst.com/xlr.html which gives the origin of the 'L' and the 'R' if not the 'X' - after reading all the conflicting stories on the subject it's hard to be sure on anything but I thought I'd add that link cos it doesn't seem to have been mentioned in one of these threads and does seem plausible. Hopefully this post will end up being searched when anyone Googles on this subject and will be useful - this information isn't currently readily available without some minor amount of digging as I found out. Cheers, Dave -- Remove the opinion on spam to reply. |
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