focal utopia cables (converting to balanced)
Jan 3, 2017 at 10:36 AM Thread Starter Post #1 of 3

jrfmd

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do any of you know how to rewire the focal utopia's standard cable's 1/4 inch plug to balanced (wire colors for each side?) I saw it in a post on head-fi but cant find it again (I'm doing it for a codex so I am going to wire + and - on each side to a 3.5 inch stereo plug with the ground floating (I think)
 
thanks in advance
Jeff
 
Jan 22, 2017 at 8:30 AM Post #3 of 3
i had moon audio get me a new set of stock cables and reterminate them to balanced
i retained the original cables in unbalanced mode for comparison (I was afraid I would lose the magic if I altered them)
the result seems better than the original cable
definitely different 
have to lower volume a lot--this makes it extremely hard to compare the two cables but I do prefer the balanced--I hope to arrive at a conclusion but I just am enjoying them now and I don't feel like doing all the work to compare them yet
it did take a week before the new cables sounded good
 
jeff
 

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