Deiz
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Headroom's cables terminate in male XLR, they don't a) sell female-to-female XLRs or b) sell reasonably-priced XLR interconnects. They're all overpriced DiMarzio.
The $100 balanced stock cable plus balanced to SE adapter isn't bad for the price, but it wouldn't let you use your 650s with the DAC1 or DA10. Nestacio is right, by the way. The DA10 has a digital volume control.
A brief history, because I can: HeadRoom started balanced headphones with the Blockhead. Tyll chose to use dual male XLR3, which is weird for two reasons: Balanced headphones only use four of the six available pins, so a single XLR4 would do, and with professional audio, male XLRs always connect to inputs, so balanced headphones are backwards - The headphone cable connects to an output with male XLRs and the output is female.
I suspect this may have been done to prevent new users from plugging their new balanced headphones into line-level balanced outputs and blowing them up.
Originally Posted by heiste /img/forum/go_quote.gif What about Headroom's balanced cable for hd650? |
Headroom's cables terminate in male XLR, they don't a) sell female-to-female XLRs or b) sell reasonably-priced XLR interconnects. They're all overpriced DiMarzio.
The $100 balanced stock cable plus balanced to SE adapter isn't bad for the price, but it wouldn't let you use your 650s with the DAC1 or DA10. Nestacio is right, by the way. The DA10 has a digital volume control.
A brief history, because I can: HeadRoom started balanced headphones with the Blockhead. Tyll chose to use dual male XLR3, which is weird for two reasons: Balanced headphones only use four of the six available pins, so a single XLR4 would do, and with professional audio, male XLRs always connect to inputs, so balanced headphones are backwards - The headphone cable connects to an output with male XLRs and the output is female.
I suspect this may have been done to prevent new users from plugging their new balanced headphones into line-level balanced outputs and blowing them up.