> > 1. What is meant by "balanced" vs. "unbalanced"
The unbalanced RCA connector is S/PDIF digital. The center pin is "hot" and the
outside
of the connector is ground. The signal is connected between "hot" and ground.
The XLR connector is AES/EBU digital. The signal is between pin 2 and 3 (neither is
grounded) and pin 1 is ground.
> > 2. If I want to use the RCA plug digitial output
> The miniplug input is optical, so you need something to convert the
> RCA coaxial electrical information into optical information for use with
> fibre optic cable. One such device which does this is the Midiman CO2.
Midiman also makes a model CO3, which has RCA (coax) and TOSlink S/PDIF as well as XLR
AES/EBU. It has the added advantage that it allows one to tweak the SCMS bits, when
appropriate. (This is often necessary when converting AES/EBU to S/PDIF, since AES/EBU
does not define SCMS.)
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