Re: need help choosing between line level cables

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:23:49 +0100, Eeyore
<rabbitsfriendsandrelations@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>
>
>Don Pearce wrote:
>
>> "Arny Krueger" <arnyk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
>> >
>> >> Balanced wiring only gives you an advantage if the
>> >> equipment is balanced. With clever wiring it's only
>> >> actually necessary for either the 'sending' or
>> >> 'receiving' equipment to have a balanced input or ouput
>> >> but you need to know what you're doing in this case.
>> >
>> >I know the strong advantage that balanced inputs give, but what
advantage do
>> >you get from an electronically-balanced output driving an unbalanced
input?
>> >
>>
>> Provided you have an appropriate balun, like a transformer at the
>> input, you get all of the advantages.
>
>You don't even need a balun if you wire it to take advantage of the
balanced
>output. Just take the balaned output (low/cold) to the destination input
'ground'
>and the output (high/hot) to the destination input and do not connect the
screen
>at the destination.
>
>Graham

No longer balanced - not even a tiny bit.

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