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Questions about a balanced setup & recabling

post #1 of 2
6/7/10 at 7:57am
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When using a balanced amp, say M^3 or Beta 22, are there any benefits to having your headphones recabled to XLRs rather than just using an adapter? I plan to eventually DIY a balanced amp (might be unsuccessful, but I'd like to try anyhow). If recabled, it'll be an extremely cost efficient recable and the cable definitely won't be superior to the headphone's old cable, so take that out of consideration.


Are there disadvantages to using dual adapters? Say take a 3.5mm, convert to RCA, then convert to XLR?

Thanks.

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post #2 of 2
6/7/10 at 8:11am

First, you can not have an adapter that goes from balanced amp output to single ended headphones. You will burn the amplifier. the other way around (from SE output to balanced headphones) is ok.

 

In the balanced configuration both the positive and the negative carry voltage. The negative is the inverted signal of the positive so when your headphones are terminated into balanced they will received double the power than in single ended.

 As long as your stock cable has 4 wires (2 per side) you can re-terminate it to XLR very easy and cheap but if it just have 3 wires you will have to recable  them to be abel to use them balanced.

 

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