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Hey Guys,

I need 2 x 10m Stereo Jack to X

..........time to warm up your soldering iron!

Do you want Male or Female XLR's? It would be a shame if you got the wrong gender.

Didn't somebody release a transgender xlr connector a while ago?

Futureman wrote:Do you want Male or Female XLR's? It would be a shame if you got the wrong gender.

Kurt wrote:Didn't somebody release a transgender xlr connector a while ago?

Futureman wrote:Do you want Male or Female XLR's? It would be a shame if you got the wrong gender.

Yep, and it can be found for sale in the cross and oxford street.

Futureman wrote:Do you want Male or Female XLR's? It would be a shame if you got the wrong gender.

Ditto for the jack .. was it 6.5mm, 3.5mm, bantam or mini bantam? It would be a shame to get the wrong size.

Hey guys,

I actually didn't realise that I had posted that...

I was trying to hire two cables for a few weeks, then I realised the absurdity of it, and just made two.

For those playing at home, they were male balanced 6.5mm to Male XLR cables.

Actually, while we are playing, technically they should have been bantam, but I used 6.5mm, without any problems,

What's the difference?

Physically, the tip seems to be a slightly different shape, and the middle conductor seems larger with bantam, but I didn't notice any working difference in real life.
Maybe our patch panel is fine, but others would have issues?

Simon "Smash" Ashby

Bantam and 6.5mm jacks are completely different... I think you're thinking of B gauge jacks, which are physically around the same size as 6.5mm jacks but slightly different shaped. In practice I've found 6.5mm jacks and b gauge jacks more or less interchangeable!

The PMG B Gauge plugs have a smaller tip than a standard 6.5mm TRS plug and if a 6.5mm TRS is used with a PMG B gauge socket, it will eventually bend the contact so that it won't return to the "normalised" condition when the plug is removed. The other difference, of course, is that PMG B jacks and sockets are made of pure brass and make much better contact than a lot of the TRS stuff that is made from nickel plated steel, and often not very good quality steel at that.

couldn't have said it better myself Bob, and don't forget--- NEVER spray cleaner/lube stuff in a jackfield if it's a bit noisy , the residue attracts dust and makes it worse. Longframe and bantam jackfields (proper ones, not cheapies) are "Self Cleaning" ,put a correct plug in and out a few times and exercise the connection . Do this to all jacks in the field as a regular maintenence procedure. Takes 10 minutes a month and saves hours of pain trying to find the source of a noisy normalling spring