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In Reply to: RE: Questions about balanced and unbalanced interconnects posted by John Elison on January 18, 2015 at 18:49:26:
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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- RE: Questions about balanced and unbalanced interconnects - garf 03:25:45 01/19/15 (10)
- RE: Questions about balanced and unbalanced interconnects - John Elison 09:17:17 01/19/15 (1)
- RE: Questions about balanced and unbalanced interconnects - garf 07:57:53 01/20/15 (0)
- RE: Questions about balanced and unbalanced interconnects - rick_m 09:16:20 01/19/15 (7)
- RE: Questions about balanced and unbalanced interconnects - Ralph 09:46:39 01/19/15 (6)
- RE: Questions about balanced and unbalanced interconnects - John Elison 12:30:32 01/19/15 (5)
- That's a common idea but rare in practice! - Ralph 13:22:41 01/19/15 (4)
- RE: That's a common idea but rare in practice! - John Elison 14:50:46 01/19/15 (3)
- There are plenty of fully balanced amps and preamps - Ralph 08:46:20 01/20/15 (2)
- RE: There are plenty of fully balanced amps and preamps - John Elison 10:48:34 01/20/15 (1)
- RE: There are plenty of fully balanced amps and preamps - Ralph 11:17:52 01/20/15 (0)