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But you are not a caveman, you are in THIS TECHNOLOGICAL world. My point was that over centuries ways of producing pleasant sounds were developed and 'perfected'. As society changed people wanted to listen to music en masse and that meant louder instruments so the iron frame for the piano was...

Thank you for fixing me P!

Not a rip off but very cheap at £11 the "SoundLab G158MB" is an all metal dynamic mic* with an XLR connector. Chunky in the hand it weighs about 120grams. Advertised "with XLR-XLR cable" it's not, the cable is XLR to unbalanced TS jack but the XLR is wired properly, pin 3 to pin 1 so it should...

I have the Tannoy 5As and am very happy with them Ray. Who TF are "they"? There are some BLOODY good sub 5" monitors from the likes of Neumann and iLoud! I agree the OP would almost certainly get away with unbalanced cables but at this price... No brainer! Dave.

The whole "are headphones as good as speakers for mixing" debate notwithstanding* Peeps are not just sitting still "mixing". We move about, pickup a guitar, mug of tea/coffee/beer, tweak amp settings and having cans and cables is a bastard nuisance! *IMHO they are not. Monitors produce a much...

Welcome Guitar Grater, The Eris 3.5s are perhaps the only PC media speakers that can just about be called "monitors"? They don't go loud, they don't go low but what they do deliver is a reasonably good representation of the music without any obvious hype. My son has a pair and he mixes and...

I haven't burned a CD for yonks (I do burn a lot of DVDs, whole other story!) The last one I think was for a boot /repair disc for Win 7 but years ago we burned plenty. I will have used two types of "burning gear". On was Samplitude (SE8 or ProX2 Silver, Prox 3 or Prox 6) sometimes to rip...

Well I am sorry you feel that way 'Bones. I would have thought the arguments between "Art, Science and Religion" had been resolved long ago, at least among reasonable people? You cannot have any kind of "art" without technology (and hence "science") The first instrument was surely the drum? A...

Yes, you need an input device that does not respond to common mode signals (very much). That can be a transformer or a differential amplifier but the big difference between a balanced line "system" is that the noise reduction is carried out because the various impednaces are "balanced" at the...

And... balanced lines do NOT work by inversion of the signal as I explained in another thread. It is the IMPEDANCES that are "balanced". Dave.

"but I think large company's like Shure or Fender often swap suppliers" Or even the relatively small one I worked for. This is an "eggs in basket" thing plus you don't want to be held to ransom. I was tasked with swapping amp transformers. After establishing that basics like lead out colour...

There is a story that Peter Walker of Quad never patented his electrostatic speaker design because it was so hard to get right. The principle is simple enough of course but the devil, things like the film tension, was in the detail. I suspect it took so much time and effort to develop and make...

I assume you mean the circuit attached? AFAIK that is added to counter the "tone sucking" effect of cable capacitance, i.e. treble loss, as the volume pot is backed off? The capacitor will have no effect when the VC is at maximum because it is shorted out. How much treble is maintained as the...

Mentioning no names but! I think far eastern counties have forever ignored Intellectual Property Rights and thus had a massive advantage over the west as they get all their software for free. I would also assume they can access engineering "drawings", BOMs and even CAD data for almost anything...

If it is just a batch of work you need to fix you could download a month's free trial of Soundforge from MAGIX, it has some very good noise reduction functions. Dave.

When do as much lugging of kit, gigging or as repair tech as I was, dangly,trippy ffoooking mains leads drive you potty! Dave.

I was really only thinking UK for the 3kW fan heater! Can't do that on 115V fused at 10A. Yes, that amp needs converting unless it has some massively stupid collector value? Personally I would punch out the two prong socket and fit an IEC. I hate fixed mains cables! Dave.

OK well this...

Well, one assumes it would just parallel (via a fuse!) the mains input. But yes, we are back to Rob's point, connector. But then we do not have a world standard for voltage or frequency but at least, AFAIK everyone is happy with IEC? I suppose we have to thank Microsoft et al for that? Dave.

Bit of a safety regs nightmare at least in UK? A 13A socket would be rather large and maybe open to abuse...SOME clown will plug in a 3kW fan heater! That leaves the only viable outlet as an IEC power socket which you used to see on old computer towers. The punter would then have to adapt...