also:
http://www.soundfirst.com/xlr.html
"There was a desire for a smaller yet connector. Someone pointed out the sm=
all 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 Lat=
ch) was born. One of the great features of this connector is that the femal=
e pin 1 contact was placed forward in the shell and thus made connection fi=
rst and broke connection last. Since pin 1 was used for the cable shield th=
is greatly reduced the chance for hum or buzz as connectors were plugged an=
d unplugged. This is the connector others such as Switchcraft and later Neu=
trik have copied.
Later Cannon modified the female end only to put the contacts in a Resilien=
t polychloroprene compound. They called this new version the XLR series. No=
other company has copied this feature. It is amusing that XLR has become t=
he generic term since what everyone else copied was the XL and not the XLR!=
The XLR line also was the first to introduce smaller rectangular flanges o=
n the panel mounting versions of the connector. This allowed a higher densi=
ty of connectors on a panel."
On 01/05/2010, at 10:25 PM, Paul Jacobson wrote:
> There is a slightly different version of the derivation of "XLR" related =
here:
>
> http://www.nullmodem.com/Audio.htm
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> On 01/05/2010, at 10:08 PM, Chris Edwards wrote:
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>> On Sat, 1 May 2010, Klas Strandberg wrote:
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>> | does anybody know what XLR means?
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>> For what it's worth, wikipedia thinks it's:
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>> 1. X [External or Ground or Shield]
>> 2. L [Line or Live]
>> 3. R [Return]
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>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XLR_connector#Mnemonics)
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>> "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
>> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause
>> Yahoo! Groups Links
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>
> "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause
> Yahoo! Groups Links
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