Re: need help choosing between line level cables

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:01:29 +0100, Eeyore
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>Don Pearce wrote:
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>> Eeyore wrote:
>> >Arny Krueger wrote:
>> >> "Don Pearce" <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>> >> > Ah - ok. The answer to your question is that it is
>> >> > impossible to drive an unbalanced input from a balanced
>> >> > output.
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>> >> Good, then I'm not losing my mind! ;-)
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>> >Don is talking CRAP unfortunately.
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>> Only when the following subsequent is deleted. One unbalanced
>> connection unbalances the entire circuit.
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>Read what I posted carefully. I AM correct.
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>Balanced is somewhat different to differential in detail and one or the
>other may be equally suitable as a 'hum reducing' strategy.
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>Graham

Balanced implies differential - that is what forms the balance. If you
take twisted pair with something on the far end - a mic for example -
and connect it to an unbalanced input, one of the pair is shorted to
ground, the other connected to the input; result is hum.

Of course balanced implies that it is balanced with respect to
something - ground usually, but not necessarily. It is quite possible
to have a balanced system running entirely on batteries.

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