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Re: Re: PIP.

Subject: Re: Re: PIP.
From: Klas Strandberg <>
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:53:36 +0200
The transformer raises the impedance a bit. (What do you loose??)

I repeat this: As I get more and more familiar with the new generation of 
plug in power generators, I get more and more suspicious about what happens 
when the generator is idling.
Before it used to be only a resistor, no harm, but today the PIP is 
produced by a current regulator.
The intention is good, to bring up the input impedance - but what happens 
when it is idling?
Besides, different recorders probably behave differently.

If I couldn't sleep unless I had taken a grip into this, I would connect a 
capacitor in series with the signal and a suitable dummy-resistor over the 
input, creating a load, as from a PIP microphone. See if I got a difference...

Klas.

  At 05:37 2006-04-23, you wrote:
>"Julian Baldwin" wrote:
> >what is the best way to [block plug-in power].
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>There's a note on the Transom.org web site that
>suggests using a Shure A95F impedance matching
>transformer to block plug-in power from a minidisc
>recorder when your mic doesn't need it.  See
>http://www.transom.org/tools/faqs/faq.mics.html#pluginpower
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>--oryoki
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
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