>And RCA? What's wrong with balanced audio on an XLR?
There's nothing wrong with it, it's just totally unnecessary for line level signals over short cable runs in domestic environments. Balanced cabling doesn't sound any better, it just has better EMI rejection.
Sure, and you never get EMI sources in a domestic environment, say mobile phones.
If you're building a system from scratch, you may as well use balanced audio, the driver costs under a fiver.
Re:A 1970s Teenager's Bedroom (1998)
by squeaky-clean on Friday May 04, 2018 @01:02PM
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> Balanced cabling doesn't sound any better, it just has better EMI rejection.
Unfortunately for me, when you live downtown near a radio station that leaks into all your audio equipment, better EMI rejection definitely sounds better.
Reminds me of dropping off a composite/svideo video mixer as a favour loan to someone running an event and their first question being "so how do I plug my Macbook pro into this?"
Is £50 a typo?
And RCA? What's wrong with balanced audio on an XLR?
I saw a lovely post on Facebook about how a freelancer had brought in something odd, that could only get the audio out of via analog.
He proudly came out with his crappy £50 RCA cables. We had to tell him that we only dealt with balanced audio. My friend went to the stores and found the most beat up converter she could find, and some ropey looking cables :)