Re: need help choosing between line level cables

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:02:28 +0100, Eeyore
<rabbitsfriendsandrelations@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

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>Don Pearce wrote:
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>> Eeyore 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.
>>
>> No longer balanced - not even a tiny bit.
>
>It's differential and for all practical purpose does the same job.
>
No, it isn't. You have one wire shorted to ground, and the other
terminated with an amp input. The two wires are no longer equal and
opposite, so what should be common mode pickup becomes differential
mode.


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