Single ended to XLR adapter

Bravo, I was entertaining myself by reading the replies of the your local “audio glitz intelligencia” and was laughing. The Balanced and Purist make wonderful adaptors that have no sonic affect, however, to experiment with adaptors in your case is like water the room flowers when the entire house on fire. I do not wonder what have made to you look for the “ornamentations” to your JC-1 but I rather wonder what made you to get this amp in the first pace. What kind sick and twisted vision of music/sound you have that convinced you once to bring that Parasound’s frequency pusher in your home? (Actually I know the answer…) I do not think you need any adapters; instead you should invest some time to educate yourself about what purpose, goals and abilities of sound reproduction might be. Really, in your case Audio will start from getting rid of that Moronic JC-1 amplifier.

“...but my ears are 43 years old.”

You child, you! What are you doing visiting adult sites like Audiogon? Go do your homework.
XLR-RCA-XLR-RCA-XLR-RCA...why, you’ll go blind or get hairy palms if you keep that up.

Now that the children have left the room...as far as the question posed above: I have used RCA-to-XLR adapters to connect an ARC SP-8 (only RCA) and Pass X-600s (only XLR, fully balanced design) for a brief time. (Previously, my preamp was a Pass X-1, a balanced design.) The sound was different because of introducing a tube unit into the system but the Pass amps still played like gangbusters. I guess it’ll come down to whether one is pleased with the sound they are getting. It does seem logical though, that the more “links” you have in any connection, the more chance of some sound degradation.

By the way guys, this “tube thing” is rather nice. I almost have the courage to try it also at the amp end. (Sorry for the brief hijack, Braro.)

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RBES so eloquently masters the art of communication by stating...well...I could cut and paste it here but go ahead...tab up and read it...it's really kind of funny...while you're at it...read his other threads...they are even better!!

but anyhow

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Naughty Naughty Rbes...tsk tsk.

Do we need to put you in the "time out" corner?

Rbes - Your Ill Mitch arent you! Im a big fan. Punch while rap was great.

I'd probably skip the adapters and just get a cable with RCA/XLR terminations.

I use RCA-to-XLR cables between my Yamaha C80 preamp and Levinson #23 amp and they work fine.

Just have to save up now for that ML26 pre...