audio aero capitol reference - XLR or RCA ?

Casouza said: "There is too much confusion and WAY too much adoration of balanced connections in the high-end community."

Right on.
I have had a Capitole Reference and now use an Audio Aero Prestige SACD. For years I have been using a 30 foot Nirvana SL interconnect that runs into the basement and up into the music room at the other end. The system sounds fantastic and I haven't felt any urge to used balanced connectors or cables even when the opportunity presented itself. If you have good shielded ICs, you don't have to worry about noise.
And like someone else has pointed out, using xlr to rca cables in your situation is useless as well as unnecessary.

I have for some years been using both balanced and RCA outputs from my Capitole as it has fed two rooms, each with it's own amp. I usually just turned on amp on at a time. Also, the Capitole has several digital inputs allowing for choices of DVD, Satellite, and of course, CD. Recently Audio Aero incorporated an analog passthru for an FM tuner.

I have had for a little over a year an Anthem D2 which fits all of the above uses. Of late I have been using the analog balanced outputs from the Capitole into the D2 and have been very impressed with this. I am aware that the Capitole is an unbalanced unit and yes, that I should stick with RCA in such cases.

Still, to my ears this set-up works well for me.

Hi

Thanks for all the inputs.

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