[BC] Absolute Polarity (was XLR pinout debate)

[Ron Cole]

In the pre digital days, I had an jock that was constantly complaining about
the off air sound of the headphones.  I could never find anything wrong with
the off air audio feed then one day I swapped the balanced audio polarity
and She quit complaining.  I guess she was sensitive to "absolute polarity"
of the whole transmission path.
That was not an issue after the Digital STL was installed, too much delay to
listen live any more.

Ron




On 8/13/06, Rich Wood <richwood at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> ------ At 09:43 AM 8/13/2006, Mark Humphrey wrote: -------
>
> >About 15 years ago, I had a similar discussion with an assistant
> >engineer I had recently hired.  Turns out he had some strong opinions
> >concerning polarity, and one day he quietly slipped me a little book
> >entitled "The Wood Effect" (as if it were a religious tract) and said
> >"Read this."
>
> I believe another book titled "The Wood Effect" is about to go to
> press. It'll be filed under Medical and will deal with the
> psychological effect my posts have on IBUZ cheerleaders. We're
> rushing the printing schedule so we can beat all the other people
> posting IBUZ problems.
>
> It'll be good reading for engineers who were trained to do no harm
> and can't quite understand how to justify interference simply because
> a station doesn't sell in a market in which another station causes
> them preventable interference.
>
> Rich
>
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