14 Feb
2002
14 Feb
'02
12:03 p.m.
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Dan Kolb wrote:
I don't EXPECT them to know the tech specs. But I DO expect them to know
that "That means that it only picks up what you aim it at" is NOT an
answer, right or wrong, to the question "what is the angle of
directionality?", and to know that "it's really good" is not an
adequate
answer to a question of the specs.
I don't EXPECT them to know the tech specs. But I DO expect them to make
at least a token effort to try to look it up when somebody DOES ask, or
even refuse to look it up.
> Answer to
"what is the angle of directionality?" of a directional
> microphone (Sony MC-100): "That means that it only picks up what you aim
> it at."
Staples do sell a lot of stuff. It's going to be difficult
for all their
sales people to know the tech specs of all their products. And there's not
going to be *that* many people asking about the angle of directionality of a
directional mike. Probably one person (max.) in their whole career there :-) > I've long since learnt that asking just about
any salesdroid for
> information is slightly less useful than asking the cat.
"SLIGHTLY less useful"??
That is an insult to cats.
True, but it can be fun to play annoy-the-sales-droid
at PC World. (Note: I
haven't done this myself, this is merely second-hand information).
When a microphone is labelled as being "directional", the angle of
directionality, or the shape of it's response curve is hardly a "annoy the
sales droid". It is approximately the same order of necessity as asking
what is the capacity of a hard disk. Would YOU buy a hard disk without
knowing the size?
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com