And never, ever, did anyone complain about getting the orientation wrong with DIN connectors.
Hah! Hardly. I have plenty of memories of endlessly rotating mouse and keyboard connectors as I reached behind a computer trying to insert it blindly, and somehow having to try half a dozen times before it finally found just the right orientation.
There’s also the issue on the older, large DIN connectors of pins getting bent or broken.
We moved on from those things for darn good reason, and I for one have no interest in going back.
I never bent a pin and as said, you can just turn them and at some point they’ll align.
The main downfall of DIN was foreign hifi companies standardising on cinch and SCART and German hifi manufacturers then switching over. You’ll still see them in niche applications, though, probably the most common is MIDI.
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.
Hah! Hardly. I have plenty of memories of endlessly rotating mouse and keyboard connectors as I reached behind a computer trying to insert it blindly, and somehow having to try half a dozen times before it finally found just the right orientation.
There’s also the issue on the older, large DIN connectors of pins getting bent or broken.
We moved on from those things for darn good reason, and I for one have no interest in going back.
I never bent a pin and as said, you can just turn them and at some point they’ll align.
The main downfall of DIN was foreign hifi companies standardising on cinch and SCART and German hifi manufacturers then switching over. You’ll still see them in niche applications, though, probably the most common is MIDI.
Turning them while looking for the right orientation is how you bend the pins…
You’re not supposed to simultaneously press with the force of five titans on steroids.
Yeah, mic cables are still standardized on this
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.