David, all,
I partly disagree in this hate campaign against 3,5 mm and plug in power.
Since I started running plug in power a few years ago, I never have
problems with mini-jacks, unless worn out gold plated contacts on head phon=
es.
The by far most common problem in my workshop are cables which have
broke where the XLR housing ends.
Long ago, buying gears with XLR's meant buying quality. Vice versa,
stuff with mini jacks were made for the poor ones and bad.
That is not the case anymore. Mini jack gears might be really good
and XLR stuff might be bad.
Today there is no reason to feel "amateurish" because you use mini-jacks.
I have two Zoom H4n and the XLR inputs are broken on both of them.
(3,5 mm works)
There are small closed bags that you can buy anywhere to clean your
eye glasses. They work fine to clean connectors too.
Klas.
At 22:44 2013-10-28, you wrote:
> > I assume what was meant by "unsuitable for field work" was that
> there's a more suitable solution, but it's not in my price bracket.
>
>Peter,
>
>What I meant was to take the home environment into the field and keep the
>3.5's clean and dry and with no movement.
>
>As for crackle, the major source is with PIP. With low mic level audio,
>slight misconnections only vary the level very briefly, but with 2V or so =
of
>DC PIP added, the slightest increase in contact resistance in a plug is
>applied to over 0dB in DC volts, in a mic circuit handling under -60dB. Wi=
th
>3.5mm jacks and sockets, only a tiny area of each connection makes contact=
,
>so any movement is likely to cause trouble.
>
>I can remember when XLR plugs were coming into use instead of plugs twice
>their diameter used by STC, Coles, etc. XLR's were designed by Cannon to b=
e
>reliable and robust. This new range of "X" plugs incorporated a locking
>mechanism (the "L") and resilient rubber mounting of the female sockets (t=
he
>"R"). Instead of jack plugs with a single point of contact, the plugs meet
>in more than one area, usually using two sprung strips. Subsequently,
>Neutrix (pronounced "noytricks") mounted both halves rigidly and made the
>connectors resilient, and we have the present day XLR series.
>
>David Brinicombe
>
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