SuperQ;212425 Wrote: > XLR is a balanced connection, it provides for much better audio quality > over RCA. You could use a coat hangers to connect XLR and get better > audio quality than $1000 RCA cables. (exageration, but it's mostly > true)
If you had not stated this so categorically, I would have simply ignored it. However, most of the time, this simply isn't true. Unless you are using very long cables (as in a pro environment) and/or in a very noisy environment, there will typically be little if any audible difference between single ended and balanced. On some equipment it will even depend upon how the single ended and balanced outputs are implemented. Why do you think all high end hifi equipment does not provided balanced connections? In fact, many high end manufacturers have stated that single ended performs as well or better in typical high end setups and refuse to implement balanced connections on their components. In most cases, the topology and dialectric differences between cables cause greater audible differences than single ended versus balanced. -- DSK ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DSK's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4225 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36550 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
