seanadams;482151 Wrote: > In products which are fully balanced this is not true, in fact you have > it exactly backwards. The extra signaling is needed to make it > UNbalanced. > > Certainly in Transporter, it's all balanced from the DAC all the way to > the XLRs. Any respectable amp that takes balanced inputs would be > designed similarly. > > As to whether "twice the circuitry" is somehow bad - you're missing the > point of balanced signaling. It's TWO complementary paths, but neither > one is more complicated than its single-ended alternative, and having > two complementary paths is what gives you the common mode noise > rejection. Hi, Sean.
Are you saying that the Transporter signals started out balanced instead of unbalanced? I have never seen that before. Thanks - Kerry -- Pneumonic Main: Transporter Squeezebox 3 > Metric Halo ULN2 .................... > Sonic Frontiers Ultra Jitterbug > Roksan DAC/PS Modwright Sony SCD 777ES Sonic Frontiers SFL-2 Preamp Quicksilver Silver 90 Mono Power amps Martin Logan CLS IIa Speakers Office: Squeezebox 3 > Lite Audio DAC60 Muse Model One Preamp Quicksilver 8417 Mono Power amps Vandersteen 2Ci Speakers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pneumonic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10091 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70969 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
