[Gladstone]

Hello everyone!

I have an Ultrasone Edition 9 headphone plugged into a RudiStor RPX-33 dying to be connected to an AD/DA converter (in this case a Lynx Aurora 8).

The problem is it's not easy to find high quality male RCA Phono's to female XLR cables. I'm not very technical, which doesn't help, so I'm not really liking the idea to make one myself out of different materials.

Okay, so it's an Lynx Studio Aurora 8 AD/DA converter and it uses the CBL-AOUT85 XLR Analog Output cable.

Some info on the side (for whatever it's worth):
-Digital I/O DB-25 connectors follow Yamaha pinout protocol
-Analog I/O DB-25 connectors follow Tascam pinout protocol

The RudiStor RPX-33 probably needs no introduction. It normally comes shipped with the BlueShift K2 cable (lowest).

Any help, suggestions, tips, knowledge, references etc. would be very much appreciated! I live in Europe btw (the Netherlands).

Also, I'm new! Nice to be a part of these forums.

 

[jgonino]

So you need some XLR to RCA cables?

email www.bluejeanscable.com. They will make them price as listed on this page:

Balanced Audio Cables from Blue Jeans Cable

 

[Gladstone]

Thank you very much!

 

[Gladstone]

Sadly...Blue Jeans Cable can't help me out because Lynx's analog outputs are balanced and the RPX-33's inputs are unbalanced. For this reason RudiStor can't seem to help me out either.

Anyone else any suggestions?

 

[jgonino]

Looks like you are going to need somone to build you a small converter box that has XLR input, and RCA output.

I suggest the Twisted Pear audio Opus BALLSIE (Balanced to single-ended) Converter. Post a thread in the DIY forum and see if someone will build you one.

Opus - A Balanced DAC

 

[Gladstone]

Thanks Jgonino. A small question though. That website sells that Ballsie module assembled and tested, exactly why would I need someone to build it for me?

I'm a bit confused...

 

[jgonino]

It comes as a PCB with components on it. You would need to solder in the jacks, and all of the power components, as well as add a case.

 

[Gladstone]

Awh boo... I'm not very technical... What is this DIY forum you're speaking of?

Thanks!

 

[MaloS]

CIAudio VRX-1
You will have one of the cables being blank I guess, unless you decide to feed the outputs to another setup =]

Thats a consequence of the balanced outputs on the Lynx, since you would have blank outputs anyways even if you have straight converter.

 

[Gladstone]

^

Thanks. Checking with CIAudio, Twisted Pear Audio aswell as Prism Sound.

Thank you guys for helping me out!