In Reply to: RE: About differences between cables - RCAs vs. XLRs. posted by beppe61 on April 19, 2015 at 06:36:30:
"By the way i was thinking that the recorded sound comes into the world balanced as most microphones are indeed balanced, if i am not wrong."
That's right!
"So it makes sense to preserve the balanced operations throughout the audio recording and playback chain maybe ?"
While the output of most all microphones are balanced and the input to the mic-pre is balanced, in almost all cases the mic-pre circuit is not.
I know of only one studio console that was balanced all the way through.
The Maytag project. This was years ago but I actually saw pieces of it.
I don't know of any professional tape machines that are balanced all the way through. I could be wrong.
In the tube era studio equipment used input and output transformers so they were balanced, in and out, but the circuits in between those transformers was single ended.
Tre'
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