Recent content by Wayne A. Pflughaupt

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    Shunyata Venom XLRs

    In my nearly 30 years in pro audio, both in a professional and non-professional capacity, the only time I’ve ever seen a connector fail in regular, non-abusive use (meaning it wasn’t damage by some event like a truck running over it), it has always been a female XLR of the type in question. So...
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    Shunyata Venom XLRs

    Nope – never heard of either company before today. I’m glad Shunyata weighed in and it’s good to know they stand behind their product. That said, anytime you see a connector like that it's a cause for concern, unless you can be assured otherwise. Regards, Wayne A. Pflughaupt
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    Shunyata Venom XLRs

    I wouldn’t touch the Venoms, no matter how good they may sound. Their XLRs look pretty, but are substandard. As described in this post, the female is a poor design, similar to cheap cables offered by Monoprice and Hosa, that I’ve seen fail time and time again. By contrast, the...
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    Redefine your budget room EQ 'flat' target curve to Harman's pro curve

    Yes, thanks for the file, Ray. It looks pretty much like the one for my ECM-8000, as well as other ECMs I’ve seen. Fitz, do you have any other mics to reference for us? When you said the measurement-mic calibration curves you’d seen were virtually the same for 0° and 90° I was hoping you...
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    Redefine your budget room EQ 'flat' target curve to Harman's pro curve

    I’d be interested in seeing those, if you could point me to them – thanks. Regards, Wayne A. Pflughaupt
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    Redefine your budget room EQ 'flat' target curve to Harman's pro curve

    I’ve heard this a lot, but remain unconvinced as to the “importance” of the reflected sound that the mic would capture at 90°, as far as meaningful measurements are concerned. Beyond that it seems like a bad idea. For starters, a 90° measurement isn’t going to capture reflections from walls...
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    Redefine your budget room EQ 'flat' target curve to Harman's pro curve

    If a system (that doesn’t have reasonably linear response to start with) sounds worse after equalizing, then the equalizing wasn’t done correctly. That goes for manual as well as auto-EQ platforms. "Before" and "after" measurements, I'm confident, would show the problems with the poorly-done...
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    Redefine your budget room EQ 'flat' target curve to Harman's pro curve

    The room can make a difference as well. Since measurement mics become increasingly directional the higher up the frequency range you go, a 90° calibration file (quite naturally) boosts the high end to compensate for the droop in response you’d get with the mic pointing up. It’s common for...
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    Redefine your budget room EQ 'flat' target curve to Harman's pro curve

    You certainly have a point. Personally, I expect that I could hear the anomalies in response in many of the graphs above, and perhaps would pass over those speakers. However... Well yes, in some ways the mic can indeed “hear” the same way you do. If the measurement mike shows a wide honkin’...
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    Redefine your budget room EQ 'flat' target curve to Harman's pro curve

    And yet, from what I see in reviews, speakers rarely ever deliver flat response above 200 Hz, even relatively expensive ones. Are we to believe a little electronic correction wouldn’t yield an improvement in sound quality? (Graphs courtesy of Sound and Vision Magazine.) Bryston Mini-A...
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    Cable Management

    The “keep power and signal cables separate” idea is certainly not bad advice, but it’s not practical in my situation so my cables are a hot mess, too. In spite of that, my system is dead silent. If you get noise in your system from poor cable management, then your signal cables have an...
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    "It's hell getting old" part 3

    I have at least 3-4 copies of Basia’s Sweetest Illusion CD. I remember losing my first copy so I bought a second one, and then later found the first. But I have no idea how or why I got the others. Regards, Wayne A. Pflughaupt
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    How to Solder: An Illustrated DIY Guide to Making Your Own Cables

    Nope, never have done that. I prefer shielded cable, so that pretty much precludes any DIY. Regards, Wayne A. Pflughaupt
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    How to Solder: An Illustrated DIY Guide to Making Your Own Cables

    Y’know, you’re the first one who’s ever claimed they did that after reading that article. Cool! As I mentioned, I use a 10-watt iron on the rare occasions I do any board work. I have no idea what the temperature is. I guess you’re trying to figure out how that translates to the new...
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    How to Solder: An Illustrated DIY Guide to Making Your Own Cables

    Great info Amir, I need to go back and mention that in the article. The consumer-grade Weller station I’m using now is I think 10 years old, or maybe even older. I haven’t had any problems with it but I sure hope Weller’s “time” expired sometime after I purchased it! :) Regards, Wayne A...
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