hikergrl
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Hikergirl,
May I ask where you obtained the balanced cable for PM4? Did you make it yourself? I have a pono player and would like to use it in the balanced mode with the PM6 which I am waiting for.
Hi Sup - I was planning on modding a cheap TF10 cable to make it Pono balanced. But I got tired of waiting for it to arrive (ebay China seller), especially since I suspected that the PM4 would sound so much better balanced. (Life is short, so listen to the best quality music you can!)
So I fearlessly cut into the Trinity cable with the memory wire (actually I hated the memory wire so I pulled that out first). I was a bit apprehensive, since I haven't modded this type of cable before. However its very straightforward, except that the amount of copper in the Trinity braided cables is tiny. Each conductor has quite a lot of fiber and it seemed like only 4-6 tiny, thin whiskers of copper. This is not unusual - but it made soldering a bit tricky (for my inexperienced hands). Definitely sounds better (quite significantly to me).
I believe that sososerious also has done this mod. (Oops just saw that sososerious just replied to your post.)
Of course we don't know what the PM6 or its cable will look like