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XLR input of active monitors

post #1 of 6
1/19/11 at 7:14am
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 Hi everyone,

  I'm considering buying a new DAC. It will feed external monitors and a headphone amp. Most of active monitors have XLR inputs, so is it necessary to buy a DAC with XLR outputs
to drive well the monitors?. Or a DAC with non balanced outputs is fine  with a RCA-XLR interconnect provided the cable lenght is just a few feet?.

Thx.
 

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post #2 of 6
1/21/11 at 3:12am
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Everyone here runs monitors from balanced sources? blink.gif

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post #3 of 6
1/21/11 at 5:05am

The signal on an RCA (consumer) output is something like -6db from the signal on an XLR (commercial) output. You will need to raise the gain on the speaker or use a gain-adjusting XLR adapter.

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post #4 of 6
1/21/11 at 8:40am
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Apart from the gain, which is straight to fix, do you know whether there is a loss of quality for 3-6 feet cables with respect to full balanced connection?.  Thx.

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post #5 of 6
1/21/11 at 11:40am
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Originally Posted by Cortes View Post

Apart from the gain, which is straight to fix, do you know whether there is a loss of quality for 3-6 feet cables with respect to full balanced connection?.  Thx.


No. There's no unusual loss of fidelity going from unbalanced to balanced.

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post #6 of 6
1/23/11 at 8:20am
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Thansk, Jerry

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