Balanced or unbalanced that is the question?

[Radley]

There have been some great replies about balanced systems. The noise floor is lower. I work in balanced systems only and one thing manufacturer's have cautioned about for years is to not use a combination of unbalanced and balanced. When I have to incorporate an unbalanced input into a system I use the Rane Balance Buddy. It is an unpowered device using Reisenbach transformers.

http://www.rane.com/bb22.html

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[pos]

If you don't want to solder the RCA then buy some of these:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/391137181816...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
(I must confess this is what I did )

Beware with those connectors: I had a buzz on one I just wired and realized that the ground/ring was not internally connected to the "-" entry!
It is the only one that appear to have that defect among the ten I ordered, but still this is quite frightening...
So check the continuity before and after wiring them.