Sex and the balanced interconnect.


Caught your eye, didn't it.

I am contemplating a new line level crossover, and it comes with XLR balanced outputs. My power amps have XLR balanced inputs, so I thought...why not give balanced a try. The problem is that both the crossover and the amps have female connectors, so that the interconnect needs to be male on both ends (just like an rca interconnect). I find cables offered with a wide variety of connector configurations, but I can't find any XLR cables configured male-to-male, although I could put in a special order and have them made.

Is it unusual to require male-to-male configuration?
eldartford
Um...fire up the soldering iron? Sounds unusual though. The male-female thing ordinarily makes them dummy proof with component males for outputs, component females for inputs...as nature first intended :^)
In the XLR connector the three pins are within a shroud that protects them from damage, so the male-to-male configuration is OK in that regard. By the way, I do live in Massachusetts, so same-sex interconnects are legal.
I find this difficult to understand. The gender of XLR connectors is defined by whether they are outputs or inputs. You might check the crossover to see if you are looking at the right ones.