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In Reply to: RE: I'm just not getting the entire balanced cable thing in the first place posted by airtime on October 24, 2016 at 08:40:54
Yes, you've alighted on the most common objections to balanced circuitry.
In particular the ideal requirement for the + and - circuits (or phase and anti-phase) to be identical can cost a lot in rejected components that do not match with their counterparts. I recall reading a report of a visit to FM Acoustics in Switzerland. The reporter was amazed at the bins of components awaiting disposal (or onward sale to other manufacturers). I am unsure if many manufacturers go to this length but it helps explain the stratospheric pricing of FM products.
In practice a balanced system may or may not perform better than a single ended one. It is all down to implementation and, I expect, the designer's original concept. I am pretty certain that quite a lot of consumer audio electronics were conceived as SE components only to have a balanced option piggy backed into the design for marketing reasons and where shortcuts for commercial reasons have been made.
NB: My own system is balanced but I made sure that I tried it in SE mode before deciding to keep it balanced. Probably because most of my equipment was made by firms with a pro-audio background where balanced is the standard. Also my interconnects are up to 5m long.
So, suck it and see is my motto.
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Doubt your setup is true balanced , xlr inputs alone dont mean the setup is balanced ...
In exactly what way is a 4 box dCS Paganini (using AES/EBU connections and balnced outputs) into an ATC SAC2 or SPL Phonitor 2 into a pair of ATC SCM 50 ASLs not balanced? Please explain in full. All have fully differential balanced circuits.All are listed in my profile and I assume that you bothered to find out before posting.
Edits: 10/25/16
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