▲ 572 ▼ USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible (www.pcgamer.com) submitted 2 years ago by ooli@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 251 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Yeah, mic cables are still standardized on this permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] barsoap@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago Nah that's XLR. More sturdy, they lock, and usually carry balanced signals. It's a pro audio thing and I've never seen it used for digital signals, DIN back in the day was in used for consumer stuff just as cinch is now. You probably also couldn't send as much phantom power over DIN. Both 3-pin XLR and 3-pin DIN are mono, but in DIN's case that's input/output, not balanced audio. From a consumer perspective that's very nice: Connecting a cassette player/recorder to the amp only uses a single 5-pin DIN cable. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago Nah that's XLR. More sturdy, they lock, and usually carry balanced signals. It's a pro audio thing and I've never seen it used for digital signals, DIN back in the day was in used for consumer stuff just as cinch is now. You probably also couldn't send as much phantom power over DIN. Both 3-pin XLR and 3-pin DIN are mono, but in DIN's case that's input/output, not balanced audio. From a consumer perspective that's very nice: Connecting a cassette player/recorder to the amp only uses a single 5-pin DIN cable. permalink fedilink source parent