Hi. As to adaptors, most of the manufacturers do not make an RCA male (which is what you need at the output of your source components) to XLR. BAT and Rowland do not, or at least didn't a year ago. The best by far of the few who do is Cardas, especially if you use heavy or stiff cables. Music Direct (amusicdirect.com) carries them. Purist also makes them, but takes longer, charges more, and with heavy or stiff cables the RCA male tends to bend from the strain. Good luck.
Changing from RCA to balanced- possible?
I've got a Sonic Frontiers Line1 preamp that I really, really like (probably because it's a HUGE step over the Adcom it replaced). It's feeding a Bryston 4BST amp through the balanced outputs, which was another HUGE step for me (I'm relatively new to seperates, and Audiogon). My question is with the preamp inputs- I'm running out of them since the Line1 has only four RCA inputs. It also has two balanced inputs, which I would like to use, but none of my sources have balanced outputs (phono preamp, CD, CD burner, tuner, DVD/TV (sorry!), and reel to reel). Does anyone know if I can change an RCA output to a balanced output, such as through an adapter of some kind, or with a change of cabling? I'm specifically thinking of the phono preamp and tuner, and have considered contacting the respective manufacturers, but I thought I'd throw this out there first. Lastly, this may be a stupid, obvious question to some of you, but it's not to me. Please keep the snide comments to a minimum (or at the least, keep them over my head!) Thanks for any help you can give me. Jim.
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