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Re: Earphone extension cable maximum length?

Subject: Re: Earphone extension cable maximum length?
From: "Dan Dugan" dandugan_1999
Date: Mon Aug 3, 2009 11:23 pm ((PDT))
> I'm wondering if there is any limit to how long an earphone
> extension cable can be. I want to be about 30m away from my recorder
> as I monitor the recording. Is it as simple as buying/making a 30m
> earphone extension cable? Or is that too long? I'm using a Fostex
> FR-2le. My earphones don't take much power - they say "Impedance: 27
> Ohms nominal". Also can I just use cheap light-weight cable? I think
> the headphone amp in the FR-2le is not so good anyway so I doubt I
> need anything "audiophile" but I would not want to make the sound
> much worse.

I've used a 100' extension with no problem. Because of the low
impedance source and load, lower resistance is desirable, i.e. larger
conductors. But I doubt that the loss from the lightest gauge wire
would be significant.

-Dan Dugan






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