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I agree with all that and was not suggesting that Marketing is the main reason to buy a APx555, what I meant, maybe in a clumsy way, is simply, as you pointed out, that electronic design engineers have always been measuring their stuff, It's the implied subtext that products starts to perform better because compagnies started measuring, or imply that purchasing an APx555 makes greater products. As you say, You buy, or rent, an APx555 if you need one, it's the underlying association shortcut that Is debatable, that purchasing an expensive analyser is the reason the product performs better. Many compagnies owning APx555 may score poorly in some of these Benchmarks, it doesn't mean they haven't measured it, It means they took different design decisions..
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RCA Male>XLR Male/TRS Male. Alternatively, you can use a switcher like this Nobsound for example 3-IN-3-OUT XLR Balanced / RCA Stereo Converter Audio Selector Box Passive Preamp (doukaudio.com) and run a regular set of Male to Male RCA cables in from the Atom and Female to Male XLR cables out to the JBL
I've actually been wondering about the same for awhile now. If there is a difference it may depend if you use TS or TRS connectors opposite the RCA end, but whether there is a difference I do not know
305p / 306p / 308p Mkii hiss is not related to the connection used - they hiss even when not connected to anything.....it's a constant low level hiss that is the same at all volume setting levels (using the volume knob on back of speaker), with the exception that if you turn volume to zero then the hiss stops, but then you don't get any sound out of the speaker ha! I don't mind the hiss on my 308p, I don't hear it at my listening position....your choice of balanced or unbalanced connection will not influence the level of hiss, but it will help solve ground loops.
For @ALex_hha 's Atom amp running balanced cables wouldn't help since it only has RCA unbalanced outs would it?
Yep, that won't help solve ground loops, and of course not the hiss "issue" as that is unrelated to balanced or unbalanced.
Running fully balanced won't solve the hiss, but will solve ground loops.
I’m curious why you think it sounds better. I thought the only difference is better channel matching. Has anyone done any testing to figure out whether there’s any difference in frequency response and distortion performance between different pots using the same topology at identical output voltages?
