As a general rule, I think you want to keep all leads (both speaker and signal) as short as possible. I have my power amps located close to the speakers and run balanced connections from pre amp to power amps. Given the choice of either shorter speaker leads or shorter (balanced) signal leads, Krell recommended shorter speaker leads. Many years ago, I had a brief stint at the BBC. All signal level connections to desks were balanced.
One small point, 'XLR' is the connector type, not the signal connection method. Most balanced systems use shielded twisted pair cable and XLR connectors, but they dont have to, and just because there are XLR connectors on something doesn't mean it is balanced. Regarding Themis' and iPhone's comments, you can buy baluns (effectively small audio transformers housed in a largish XLR style plug) to convert from single ended to balanced (or back again), and you could put one at either end of a long cable run to minimise noise, but it seems quite a perfomance to do, and wont fix any attenuation problems you may have. -- Andy8421 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andy8421's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16846 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68131 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
