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RE: Questions about balanced and unbalanced interconnects

Thanks for this - I was not previously aware that internally balanced amplifiers loose power if fed with an RCA-to-XLR adapter and I would be interested to know why this is.

I have (I think!) a fully balanced power amp (ARC VT130SE) fed by balanced XLR-->XLR inputs from a passive pre-amp. However, the CD player has only RCA outputs and these are connected to the pre-amp by a custom XLR connector on the interconnect. It sounds pretty good and powers the Martin Logan electrostatics well.

My question is: does the CD --> pre-amp RCA-->XLR connection have any adverse effect?

Many thanks,

garf


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