Balanced Qualia 010. It's just occured to me...

[bangraman]

...That this is a single-sided phone with a 2-pronged Lemo connector + common ground.


How does this affect balanced operation, if I choose to have a balanced cable made up for the 010?

 

[bangraman]

I think I've answered my own question and had it confirmed by antonik. Unless I replace the Lemo socket and rewire the phone, I guess it's not going to happen. Oh well. I'll have to look at it when it arrives.

 

[Edwood]

Oh crap. I just realized that. Man. That sucks. Too bad it's just not a straight cable replacement.

-Ed

 

[kwkarth]

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Originally Posted by bangraman I think I've answered my own question and had it confirmed by antonik. Unless I replace the Lemo socket and rewire the phone, I guess it's not going to happen. Oh well. I'll have to look at it when it arrives.

If it's only a 2 pin Lemo (instead of 4 pin) that means that the common ground is being carried by the plug casing. Balanced rewiring aside, that's not too cool, actually it's a real dissapointment. So you've got signal flowing through two gold pins and one aluminum threaded ring... Wonder what the spectrum analysis & TDR model looks like on that?

How is the signal carried over to the opposite side driver? Visible wire or something buried in the frame?

 

[ayt999]

what do you mean by that? I thought it had two wires going to each driver (each with its own socket) and was easily balancable.

 

[bangraman]

It's really hard to see. Is it one-sided or two-sided? If it's two-sided then it's end of problem and no more panic, since the Lemo connector is two-pronged.

 

[ayt999]

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Originally Posted by bangraman It's really hard to see. Is it one-sided or two-sided?

can you explain the one-sided, two-sided thing?

 

[Sovkiller]

Quote:

Originally Posted by bangraman ...That this is a single-sided phone with a 2-pronged Lemo connector + common ground. How does this affect balanced operation, if I choose to have a balanced cable made up for the 010?

No, no, no....IIRC the Qualia has double sided cable, not just a single, it inserts in both sides, with two lemo, connectors one on each side, they join in the center at about 1-1.5' with a nice aluminum piece that says Sony on it very nice BTW....

 

[bangraman]

The W2002 is two-sided. The W1000 is one-sided. The Q010 looks one-sided in all the pictures. I'm hoping I'm wrong.

 

[bangraman]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sovkiller No, no, no....IIRC the Qualia has double sided cable, not just a single, it inserts in both sides, with two lemo, connectors one on each side, they join in the center at about 1-1.5' with a nice aluminum piece that says Sony on it very nice BTW....

Ah... phew. OK panic over folks, nothing more to see here...

 

[ayt999]

ya, that's my hand....

 

[kwkarth]

Looks good to me!

 

[Kurt]

Are there any news?

Which company does sell a balanced cable already?
TIA

 

[boodi]

bangra have your qualia arrived ....how do they perform on your ears ?
what do you pair them with (amp)?

thanks for sharing

 

[bangraman]

No. It's on, then it's off, then it's on. I'm officially pee'd off at this time, but it's either that or pay full price... which I'd rather not if possible.