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How to get balanced inputs working

I have mbl 5011 preamp with a pair of balanced inputs ,when I run dac through it with switch on dac to xlr,which I know is fully balanced , I receive no audio, when I put switch on dac to rca I get. Music don't tell me mbl 5011 has a bogus balance input that's really unbalanced
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almarg
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Does the digital cable, that is connected between the DAC and the CDP, have RCA connectors or does it have XLR connectors?

Regards,
-- Al
pavpet OP
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Connections between dac and cdp is rca
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almarg
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It appears, as is typically the case, that the XLR/RCA switch on the Audio Horizons 3-series DACs selects between the XLR and RCA digital INPUT connectors, and has nothing to do with which analog output connector is being used. The XLR and RCA analog output connectors are presumably driven simultaneously, as Brf indicated.

So the reason that you hear nothing when "XLR" is selected is that nothing is connected to the XLR digital input connector. The MBL preamp has nothing to do with the issue.

The bottom line: Hey, no problem!

Regards,
-- Al
pavpet OP
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Its a shame That I'm having a problem with the mbl balanced , because that's where the audio horizon shines more low level detail ,better tmber in voices ,larger soundstage , overall better musicality ,as the original hook up was with the sugden preamp in xlr and was awesome and the sugden is no mbl so I assume all these nice harmonic textures were from the dac
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No the audio horizon dac was working in xlr with another balanced preamp the sugden and worked fine in xlr
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