If only two mics... ?

[k brown]

Definitions are not semantics . . .

 

[thor.zmt]

It's about mindset; particularly in management.

And that is precisely where I have found factories under mainland management wanting. It starts with the mindset (#1 - #5 are "money") and the rot continues from there.

And because often the workforce doesn't care enough to mix chemical right, manually inject plastic into moulds just so, or consistently apply glue. So in order to assure quality the bosses take the pragmatic step of making such jobs automated. Voila, consistency assured.

It can be done using human labour, but the management effort is extreme, in China at least, where I have been.

Hence I find your comments so remarkable.

This was the difference between our Western factories and this Guangzhou site. It's why our Western factories couldn't produce the quality I wanted while the Chinese could.

This was in (say) 2018 and still continues today?

I take a different view. If it takes such a special supplier to make your stuff and you rely on them you paint yourself into a corner.

So instead I design based upon understanding the potential quality issues your average Chinese factory may introduce. Plus, items must be available from multiple suppliers in the supply chain. If that means using a plastic dust cap with an attached foam strip, instead of paper and getting very slightly worse objective and subjective performance, so be it.

As a result, if one factory for whatever reasons no longer is available (e.g. the owner lost it to the Triads over gambling debt and the new management is culling customers to maximise short term profit) production is down for a weeks at the most.

It's a different mind set I guess, highly pragmatic, the way most Chinese management operates.

Thor

 

[Barry Hufker]

@ricardo: What is your preferred method?

 

[Paul W]

Definitions are not semantics . . .

Definitions are exactly semantics.

(Semantics is meanings. Or the study of meanings, and how things mean things.)

Oh, y'all mean quibbles... Never mind.

 

[thor.zmt]

"Perfectly sounding U 87 build"
What else?

And done all from Aliexpress parts costing peanuts and using a 16mm electret capsule?

Oh well, buy Blue Monster 800 then.

Thor

 

[thor.zmt]

Definitions are not semantics . . .

Semantics_Nazi = On;

• Semantics
  The study of how meaning is constructed and communicated in language. It includes how signs are interpreted and what information they contain. For example, a dictionary definition of the word "ram" is "adult male sheep".
• Definitions
  A part of semantics that provides the meaning of words through synonymous expressions or paraphrases.
• Linguistics
  the scientific study of language and its structure, including the study of morphology, syntax, phonetics, and semantics.
  
  So to claim "Definitions are not semantics" seems rather cunning linguism to me, perhaps with a side of master debating.
  
  As said before.
  
  
  Semantics_Nazi = Off;
  
  Back to which Two, Four, Six, unlimted number Microphones do we need and how can we make a minimalist recording with 42 Microphones.
  
  Thor
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

 

[JohnRoberts]

pedantic /pə-dăn′tĭk/

adjective​

1. Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for academic knowledge and formal rules.
   "a pedantic attention to details."
2. Of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning.
   "a pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical affectation."
3. Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.

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apologies for continuing this veer...

JR

 

[kingkorg]

WTF is going on here?

 

[pmfalcman]

WTF is going on here?

People are debating what one can do with two mics only.*
Intensely debating.**


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*) However this sounds

**) It just got rather philosophical now. Someone is bound to quote Torah soon.

 

[pmfalcman]

And done all from Aliexpress parts costing peanuts and using a 16mm electret capsule?

Obviously.
It doesn't count any other way.