jeremy;183139 Wrote: > ... but is balanced vs unbalanced just a case of a different type of > cable?
No absolutely not! The cable is different...yes. Three conductors instead of two +/- and ground. But the real point of balanced operation is the ability to reject common-mode noise through straightforward cancelling. Put simply, any noise on both the + and - lines will be summed (in the receiving equipment, NOT the cable!) to zero as they are anti-phase. This is rather important in studios with long cable runs (especially for sensitive low output microphones). It is less so in most domestic situations. However, having a balanced output going to an unbalanced input undoes the whole purpose of balanced connection.If the balanced output sounds better when connected to an unbalanced input than using the unbalanced output,,,,, then I would suspect something less than optimal about the unbalanced output... By all means experiment. However, your Naim equipment is designed to be fed from unbalanced sources. By the way if your Linn Aktiv box has xlr connectors (as mine did) they are NOT balanced connections - they are unbalanced with a very unconventional wiring pattern. Just thought I'd mention that. -- Phil Leigh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33048 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
