Re: OK to use TV coax for microphone?

Phil Allison wrote:
> "don pearce PITA smug wanker "
>>  "Richard Crowley Arse Licker "
>>>>  If you are trying to use a balanced
>>>> mic, then the cable is unsuitable because it is unbalanced.
>>>
>>> ** Not true at all !!
>>>
>>> There is  NO reason not to use a (suitable) co-axial type cable with a

>>> microphone  -  either low or high impedance.
>>>
>>> Despite all the nonsense you WILL  have read elsewhere,  co-axial
cables 
>>> have as good or better rejection of external hum and noise sources as
do 
>>> balanced twin wire cables.
>>>
>>> Try it out if you don't believe this.
>>>
>> Of course a proper microphone cable is SCREENED balanced twisted pair,
> 
> 
> ** Exactly what I was referring to above.
> 
>    Mic cable  IS  a balanced twin wire cable.
> 

Having trouble spotting the capital letters, are you? (yes, I saw yours, 
and that is what prompted this question, the relevance obviously passed 
you by).

> 
>> A poorly screened coax cable such as TV coax  has only a part of the
first 
>> of those
> 
> 
> ** It ain't necessarily poorly screened and it ain't necessarily what I
just 
> posted about.
> 
>    Do learn to read sometime  -   ****wit.
> 

we know exactly what this cable is - and yes it is poorly screened. Do 
try to follow the threads. And if you want to post about something else, 
start a new thread.

> 
>> has only a part of the first of those ..
> 
> 
> **  Not true of co-axial cable in general.
> 
>     Do learn to read sometime  -   ****wit.
> 
> 
>  so this claim is clearly nonsensical.
> 
> **  Not at all   -
> 
>  your irrelevant &  asinine claims are nonsensical
> 
>      -   ****wit.
> 
> 
>> If it were true, professional microphone and mixer companies would not
be 
>> going to the trouble of designing balanced kit.
> 
> 
> **  More completely irrelevant nonsense.
> 

Irrelevant is it? Tell that to Neve, Neumann, Shure, Sennheiser, Leevers 
Rich - need I go on?

> 
> " Despite all the nonsense you WILL  have read elsewhere,  co-axial
cables
>  have as good or better rejection of external hum and noise sources as
do
>  balanced twin wire cables.  Try it out if you don't believe this. "
> 
> Obviously   YOU   need to do this too  -   ****wit.
> 
> Since you are so PIG ignorant of the basic physics of co-axial cable.
> 

I appear to have a vastly better grasp of the topic than you, not 
surprising really when you consider that I have designed ultra low noise 
microwave measuring equipment.

d