Balanced vs. Single Ended Interconnects

Now you talkin’! A very solid thought!

@audphile1 he already knows those cables from his/her church, and doesn’t want to spend $20 to try them out.

They say that the lord works in strange ways.

What’s next…a speaker from an ice cream truck? They work just fine there, should work at home. 

He did not mention that he uses monoprice XLRs on an ice cream truck.

It sounds like a sherbet to try those too. 😎

@holmz - I'm the head of the AV team and might have even donated most of the cables.  I could borrow them at any time, but don't want to mess with 6 long cables!

OK @mceljo - if you do not want to take the time and try them, then it will be hard to determine if the inexpensive ones will work just fine or not… and also will be hard to understand what the $200 cables would do that the cheaper ones would not do.

Someone needs to mess with building them, either you pay someone, or you build them yourself.

Obviously I like the convenience of being able to build them in the specific length, on a Sunday when the stores are closed.

Well, the new DAC arrived last night and I anticipate being satisfied with it for a long time to come.  It was a clear step up across the board, so if balanced cables can make a further improvement, that time will come.

In my system, XLR interconnects are no better at rejecting noise than RCA/single-ended cables.  In fact, they're worse.  I get a 60 cycle hum with XLRs between my preamp and amps that I don't get at all with RCAs.