XLR BALANCED INPUT CABLES

[dmethe3]

Who makes reasonable XLR Blanaced input cables for use on 7 channel B&K Reference amps?

And are they better than the standard RCA inputs? What is to gain?

Thanks

[jbsl]

type in xlr in the search under 2 channel and you can find about 4 post on this topic, here is one

http://forums.klipsch.com/idealbb/view.asp?topicID=59975&forumID=68&catID=19&search=1&searchstring=&sessionID={68C865AF-FD26-44B3-A8E7-AA25A326C515}

Xman

[Tom Adams]

I purchased my XLR's (for my B&K Ref.50 S2) from Blue Jeans Cable and I would gladly do it again IF I were in the market for XLR's. However.....

In hindsight (gleaned from the collective wisdom imparted here), I would've just gotten some RCA's. In a nutshell, if your equipment is housed such that it might pick up stray EMI or summat, then use XLR's. Otherwise, quality RCA's will do just fine.

Tom

[D-MAN]

XLR's are best used for "longer" runs, which is why they are preferred on professional gear.

On short runs (i.e., 1 meter or less), the sonic differences are less apparent, and a good set of RCA's will perform as well.

DM

[scriven]

jbsl,

FYI: When you post the url for a thread you don't need anything past the topicID=?????. So the one you posted would be http://forums.klipsch.com/idealbb/view.asp?topicID=59975

[PAV]

I have a set of AudioQuest XLR cables I ended up not using.

The build quality is great.

I highly recommend the AudioQuest line.

Good Luck!!

[dmethe3]

Thanks for the input!

[Ray Garrison]

You should also consider the equipment you're using. If you have a preamp that, internally, is not a fully balanced differential design, but just references the signal to the ground plane, and you have an amp that's also not internally balanced, but they both have balanced input/output connection options, then what's happening inside is the preamp is running the single ended signal through a phase splitter, putting that out throught the balanced outputs, and the amp is taking the signal in and basically doing the reverse. On short runs, in this situation, the single ended connections might well sound quite a bit better.

Conversely, if you have an amp and preamp like the BAT designs or something similar, where the whole signal path inside the amp and preamp is fully differencial balanced, then using single ended connections seems kind of silly.