beanzontoast
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- South of The Peaks
[Heads off to start an audio-visual cabling company specialising in selling cheapo imports at inflated prices. There's gold in tham tharre cables!! Yee-hah! 
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Benb, for your sake I'll post the link again >here< it's a spoof!
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NOTE: All prices are in pounds. If you prefer prices in kilogrammes please ask
That's the trouble with bullshit (of all flavours). It's often hard to tell the difference between "real" bullshit, and a parody.
Who needs parody sites when you have real sites like this?
http://www.russandrews.com/
Russ Andrews - subject of several Bad Science articles and ASA judgements.
Don't know if he actually sells anything to anyone outside a small circle of loonies, though.
http://www.russandrews.com/
Russ Andrews - subject of several Bad Science articles and ASA judgements.
Don't know if he actually sells anything to anyone outside a small circle of loonies, though.
OP
OP
2Loose
Guru
- Location
- Loughborough, Leicestershire.
That is very true, truth is often stranger than fiction. But with that one the minimum cable length of 300m started to ring bells...and then the radioactive speaker filling...well, you get the point.
GordonB
Guru
- Location
- Somewhere just north of Ipswich
I once bought a 7m cable for £500 plus VAT. However.......................it was a microphone extension cable for one of my noise meters, 7 pin Lemo connectors either end, extremely low loss shielded cable, all specifically made for the meter and calibrated. My latest meter uses a coaxial connector rather than the Lemo and the same type of extension cable cost me £50, still pricey but at least it's not exhorbitant.
Gordon
Gordon
Ghost Donkey
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Yowser. I used to solder Lemo connecters onto cheap cables for radio packs. I expect the connectors I used were considerably cheaper than yours. The Lemo book had so many variables it made ordering the right bits similar to a brain teaser.
Ghost Donkey
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I've never seen that website before. Tis a thing of beauty.
I've been to a few recording studios whena student and while working for one terrestrial broadcaster visited several other broadcast facilities and I've seen so many of the things you are "advised" to do ignored at the source. Equipment is stacked on top of each other in racks rather than spaced horizontally seperate on an uber expensive custom surface or cabinet. So many cables run together under the floating floor to the point of causing problems putting the floor tiles back down. Krone frames would make some people wake up at night in a cold sweat. I wonder if the people producing and selling this expensive stuff are traumatised by the standards employed by the d1ckheads working in the recording studios and for broadcasters and film distribution companies
.Saying that they could pick up a copy of a cycling magazine and look at the reviews comparing different £8k road bikes and think the same thing
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Conversely - doing what you are not supposed to do ...
I once watched in horrified fascination as an 'unearthed' engineer walked across a carpeted floor holding a DSP card worth over £2,000 in his hands, then stop to chat to someone and absent-mindedly stroke his fingers back and forth across the back of the card. I'd be amazed if he didn't zap some of the sensitive devices on that card with static!
I watched another guy poke an index finger through the grille of a cooling fan at the back of a large rack of equipment. He yelped in pain as the spinning fan blades amputated the nail!
Ghost Donkey
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Conversely - doing what you are not supposed to do ...
I once watched in horrified fascination as an 'unearthed' engineer walked across a carpeted floor holding a DSP card worth over £2,000 in his hands, then stop to chat to someone and absent-mindedly stroke his fingers back and forth across the back of the card. I'd be amazed if he didn't zap some of the sensitive devices on that card with static!
I watched another guy poke an index finger through the grille of a cooling fan at the back of a large rack of equipment. He yelped in pain as the spinning fan blades amputated the nail!
I've done some silly things but never damaged equipment or taken anything off air. Almost caused problems on a couple of occasions, but not quite. This is in danger of a thread hijacking.
From a technical silliness point of view I've seen a freelance wireman stand on a foot pedastal resting on coax cable carrying SDI video and shifting his weight/jumping around. Someone had to tell him to stop as he was breaking up the signal
. Another drove his car along the wall of the carpark exit. Most likely drink related.A mate of mine put a microphone on a woman's top for a programme shoot while she was wearing a necklace MADE OF BELLS! Failed the tech asses for transmission on poor sound but they managed to get an exemption and it went out.
I have seen three news studio re-designes over the years where the presenters' desks were made with flourescent lights in them and intended for use with radio mics. All three were made by the same contract designer. They were all aparently tested as working on site, just not with any of our sound engineers it would seem. All needed modification or the lights left off.
I received a courier parcel which had been put in an additional courier branded box and taped up with their brand of tape. The original box had a hole in with two smashed Axon branded video converter cards in. When we rang them up they initially agrred to pay for damages until we told then they were £2k each. After sending an assessor out they agreed to pay for replacements.
'Sound Operator' just doesn't have the same ring to it!
twowheelsgood
Senior Member
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- Zurich Switzerland
Well, I'd imagine they'd be digital now, but the BBC was always wired-up with humble twisted copper pairs when I worked there. Most radio studios had a couple hundred metres of what looked like twisted bell-wire to connect to the control room.
Where money was spent was on durability, better connectors etc. They also used balanced connections which avoided ground issues and improved common mode noise.
I used to be involved in car audio systems, and the number of times I'd see decent speakers and amps fitted and "bell wire" or other thin cables being used to connect the two together was scary. Good quality speaker cable can certainly make a noticable difference at anything above whisper volumes.
That's due to current carrying capacity rather than any inherent "quality" of cost. I'd defy anyone to tell the difference between two chunky copper cables of roughly the same cross section.
Where money was spent was on durability, better connectors etc. They also used balanced connections which avoided ground issues and improved common mode noise.
I used to be involved in car audio systems, and the number of times I'd see decent speakers and amps fitted and "bell wire" or other thin cables being used to connect the two together was scary. Good quality speaker cable can certainly make a noticable difference at anything above whisper volumes.
That's due to current carrying capacity rather than any inherent "quality" of cost. I'd defy anyone to tell the difference between two chunky copper cables of roughly the same cross section.
