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XLR to XLR and RCA Y-Cable ?

post #1 of 3
1/31/11 at 8:20am
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My DAC has one pair of balanced XLR Outputs only.

My active Studio Monitors are connected witth balanced XLR cables.


Now I connected a headphone amp with RCA Inputs only and the Monitors with a XLR Y-Cable and a XLR-RCA Adapter.
 

The XLR Adapter shortcuts pin1 and pin3.


So everything is wired, and it works, but the shortcut from pin1 and pin3 in the XLR-RCA Adapter makes all my wiring -also to the Studio Monitors- unbalanced ?

 

Is this a problem?

 

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Gear mentioned in this thread:

Aphex 120A Audio Distribution Amplifier with 1 XLR input and 4 XLR outputs
post #2 of 3
1/31/11 at 8:43am

It might be a problem, it might not :) Do the manuals for your monitors or DAC specify that they can be hooked up this way?

 

Assuming the manuals approve what you have done, but it still bugs you:

Get a pair of 10k:??? transformers to convert balanced to SE. Alternately there are some op-amp based solutions to the problem. 

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post #3 of 3
2/3/11 at 2:46am

In case you want to spend some decent amount of money to solve your problem;)

http://glass-ware.stores.yahoo.net/bcf9pinpcb.html

 

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Aphex 120A Audio Distribution Amplifier with 1 XLR input and 4 XLR outputs
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