Re: [LAU] Audiophile 2496 or the Delta 66

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:17 AM, Peter Nelson <peter@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 11:57 -0700, Niels Mayer wrote:
>
>> The thing that's a complete showstopper on the Audiophile 24/96 is the
>> lack of balanced I/O. You gotta use Balanced I/O into and out of a
>> computer, with unbalanced connections through "telescoping shield"
>> technique
>> ( http://www.mhsecure.com/technotes/v5MixerOverview/Telescoping_Shield.png ) unless you like having your sound all fuzzed out by ground & clock noise from the computer. This works well with the Delta 66 since it appears to have a reasonably well isolated  analog and digital ground-planes on the card...
>
> But do bear in mind that the ins and outs on the break out box on the
> Delta 44/66 are not balanced...

The jacks are 1/4 inch TRS (tip, ring, sleeve). They are balanced
unless you use a TS cable to connect them, or the jack on the other
end is not TRS.

-- 
 joq
_______________________________________________
Linux-audio-user mailing list
Linux-audio-user@email-addr-hidden
http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user