On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 14:04 -0500, Brent Busby wrote:
It's fine. All pro audio balanced connections are low impedance outs
to high impedance ins. This is done so that you can mult outputs (make
copies) and the inputs won't mind a lower dB input signal.
Rich...
> Is it wrong to use a regular cable (no transformer) to connect the XLR
> main and submix group outputs of a console to the TRS (balanced) inputs
> of an audio card, or should impedance matching be done in that case?
> It is quite common in music stores these days to find cables that are
> XLR male on one end and TRS male on the other. (I'm currently using
> those on my mixer outputs.) The cables *are* balanced, but they do not
> contain a transformer at all.
>
> The impedance of my console's main/submix outputs is rated as less than
> 75 ohms, but the input impedance of my audio card is 10k ohm. This
> would seem to almost answer the question by itself, it weren't for the
> near impossibility of actually finding a matching transformer that's TRS
> and not TS on its 1/4" end. I looked at a lot of them. They're all
> made for hooking up guitars, amps, and mics, and they all seem to have
> an unbalanced plug opposite from the XLR end.
>
> If there is indeed a need transformers on each XLR mixer output in this
> instance, where can I get one that won't unbalance the connection in the
> process? Or is it fine to just use these common XLR->TRS cables that
> don't have any? The reason I started to investigate this is because I'm
> not sure I'm not getting some of the "tone suck" you might associate
> with a badly matched connection, and this seems a likely cause.
>
>
> Addendum: On the realtime end of things, I'm now achievable a solid,
> unbreakable 2ms. I can't seem to do anything that causes an xrun.
> That's good at least!
>
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