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Re: Cable for long PIP runs?

Subject: Re: Cable for long PIP runs?
From: "Steve Sergeant" stevesgt
Date: Fri Aug 6, 2010 3:37 pm ((PDT))
  I've found some good quality connectors from Neutrik:

Here's the female:
http://www.neutrik.com/fl/en/audio/210_t2_240827631/NYS240BG_detail.aspx

Here's the male (straight and 90=C2=B0):
http://www.neutrik.com/fl/en/audio/210_2123640555/NYS226BG_detail.aspx
http://www.neutrik.com/fr/en/audio/210_459854644/NTP3RC-B_detail.aspx

I tend to order this kind of thing from either Newark or Full Compass.

I'm still trying to find the right cable, though.


On 8/6/10 15:18 PM, Dan Dugan wrote:
>>   I am looking for a good U.S. sources for a light, thin, flexible cable
>> stock that would be good for a long (50' - 100') run from either an
>> Olympus LS-10 or a Marantz PMD-620 to a pair of unbalanced PIP
>> microphones.  I'd like to carry two 50' cables on an impending multi-day
>> backpacking trip.
> I have 50' and 100' shielded "headphone" extension cables with 3.5mm conn=
ectors on both ends that I use for exactly that job. The Telingas at Milk l=
ake were on the long one.
>
> Theoretically you're losing some top end with a 2K-3K ohm source on such =
a long cable, I've never measured it. In practice they sound good.
>
> I got them from a video supply house, like Markertek. I recall the connec=
tor on one end was so cheap it failed the first time out. I replaced it wit=
h a better one. I stock the Switchcraft pro 3.5mm gold male connectors (str=
aight&  90), but to my knowledge nobody make a pro cable female 3.5mm stere=
o connector yet.
>







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