Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter users: Balanced or unblanced?

2009-11-10 Thread Themis
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter users: Balanced or unblanced?

2009-11-10 Thread Keymaster
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter users: Balanced or unblanced?

2009-11-10 Thread Themis
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter users: Balanced or unblanced?

2009-11-10 Thread iPhone
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter users: Balanced or unblanced?

2009-11-10 Thread Themis
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter users: Balanced or unblanced?

2009-11-10 Thread Pat Farrell
Themis wrote: > There are plenty of amps out there without balanced inputs. No-one buys > amplifiers on their sole ability of having balanced inputs. This > explains that, I guess. Actually, there are several companies that sell only balanced gear, if you buy their stuff, its because it has balanc

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter users: Balanced or unblanced?

2009-11-10 Thread Pat Farrell
iPhone wrote: > Isn't it because they *-Aren't Using-* balanced connections?! Quite possibly. The dealers love RCA connections as I've never seen an XLR cable that cost over $50, not much markup there. One can argue that for a half meter or so, RCA is "acceptable" but there is no question that f

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter users: Balanced or unblanced?

2009-11-10 Thread Themis
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter users: Balanced or unblanced?

2009-11-10 Thread iPhone
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter users: Balanced or unblanced?

2009-11-10 Thread audiomuze
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter users: Balanced or unblanced?

2009-11-10 Thread Keymaster
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter users: Balanced or unblanced?

2009-11-10 Thread seanadams
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter users: Balanced or unblanced?

2009-11-10 Thread pippin
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter users: Balanced or unblanced?

2009-11-09 Thread Phil Leigh
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter users: Balanced or unblanced?

2009-11-09 Thread seanadams
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter users: Balanced or unblanced?

2009-11-09 Thread seanadams
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter users: Balanced or unblanced?

2009-11-09 Thread Phil Leigh
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter users: Balanced or unblanced?

2009-11-09 Thread Pat Farrell
Phil Leigh wrote: > Most analogue sources are "balanced" ... mics, cartridges, guitar > pickups etc - certainly anything with a coil of wire in it... Isn't every electrical signal "balanced" in the respect that they generate or modulate a voltage based on the received signal. One electron goes out

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter users: Balanced or unblanced?

2009-11-09 Thread Phil Leigh
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter users: Balanced or unblanced?

2009-11-09 Thread iPhone
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter users: Balanced or unblanced?

2009-11-09 Thread seanadams
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter users: Balanced or unblanced?

2009-11-09 Thread iPhone
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter users: Balanced or unblanced?

2009-11-09 Thread Pneumonic
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter users: Balanced or unblanced?

2009-11-09 Thread Pneumonic
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter users: Balanced or unblanced?

2009-11-09 Thread cliveb
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter users: Balanced or unblanced?

2009-11-09 Thread Pat Farrell
Pneumonic wrote: > For me I have always used single ended connections with high level > audio signals because I was under the impression that most audio designs > start off with signals that are unbalanced so that transforming them to > balanced requires additional circuitry which isn't conducive t

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter users: Balanced or unblanced?

2009-11-09 Thread pippin
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter users: Balanced or unblanced?

2009-11-09 Thread Pneumonic
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter users: Balanced or unblanced?

2009-11-09 Thread pippin
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter users: Balanced or unblanced?

2009-11-09 Thread Pat Farrell
Pneumonic wrote: > I was wondering how many of you use the Transporters balanced outs? I have been using mine balanced since day one. All of my recording studio cabling is balanced, and I had the cables. I don't understand why audiophiles spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars on interconnec

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter users: Balanced or unblanced?

2009-11-09 Thread Pneumonic
In light of Sean's revelation (to me anyhow) http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70969&page=2 that the Transporters AKM 4396 DAC is naturally balanced at the output stage, and thus has to undergo additional circuitry manipulation (signal degradation ?) in order to be transformed into