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Proper cable to join RCA to XLR balanced, help needed

No, perfectly serious and one from their cheaper lines. This brand is absolute top class in selling snake oiled products at unbeliefable prices. The stupid, rich audiophiles love the brand. I would love to see one of their presentations, if there are really sonic differences, they must know some pretty dirty tricks. You don't need much fantasy to imagine what you can hide inside an audio cable.
I guess the top of the line is a superconductor at liquid helium temperature… at least they can justify the price by selling the tank, the compressor and condenser coils :)
 
Using a standard rca cable in conjunction with an adapter might work. There might be clearance issues in some cases however.
 
I guess the top of the line is a superconductor at liquid helium temperature… at least they can justify the price by selling the tank, the compressor and condenser coils :)
Don't give them any ideas....at least I don't think I've seen superconductor claims myself, they might be out there.
 
with a RCA output to an XLR input use a:
adapter to an XLR cable.
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there are two types of adapters;
a] with the shield also connected at the RCA end.
b] with the shield only connected at the XLR end.

I think that (b) will have less ground loop problems.
 
Every time this question is asked, there are far too many wrong answers given—again and again.

For the two-millionth time:

Don't use an RCA-to-XLR adapter plug.

Don't use single conductor shielded cable.

Do follow the recommendation of the guy who has spent four decades trying to educate people on how to eliminate hum and buzz in their audio equipment:

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If you can't find a properly constructed cable, make them yourself. If you must buy a pre-made cable, make sure that you disassemble the connectors and examine both the connection layout and the quality of the workmanship of the assembly.
 
Every time this question is asked, there are far too many wrong answers given—again and again.

For the two-millionth time:

Don't use an RCA-to-XLR adapter plug.

Don't use single conductor shielded cable.

Do follow the recommendation of the guy who has spent four decades trying to educate people on how to eliminate hum and buzz in their audio equipment:

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If you can't find a properly constructed cable, make them yourself. If you must buy a pre-made cable, make sure that you disassemble the connectors and examine both the connection layout and the quality of the workmanship of the assembly.
Majority of answers went on the 2 wires from 1 and 3 pin going separately and join at the RCA extreme, your efforts and other kind members have done good results.

Wrong answers are needed to learn, I have also gave incorrect advices and being corrected by more expert or just members who have the good knowledge.

Let’s continue for the two-millionth-and-one time again, thanks for your efforts! :cool:
 
If you use a two wire + screen cable, it is important not to short screen and negative on the XLR side.
The "short" between screen and negative has to be at the RCA side. That is all there is to know.

If you only have one life wire + screen cable, you can not do that of course. Anyway, for short cables even negative and ground joined on the XLR side will usualy work. Like an XLR to female RCA adapter. Otherwise no HIFI RCA connection would be 100% silent! The usual symetrical output will not mind the short of one half of it's buffer amp. You can read that in hardly any user manual of active gear with XLR out only. There is always an output resistor or the like so it doesn't care about shorting the negative side.
 
Don't use an RCA-to-XLR adapter plug.
Not correct, as there are two types of these.
The offending one is female RCA to male XLR. placed at the receiving end of an RCA cable.
The perfectly fine one is RCA male to XLR female, placed at the source end of an XLR cable.
 
Not correct, as there are two types of these.
The offending one is female RCA to male XLR. placed at the receiving end of an RCA cable.
The perfectly fine one is RCA male to XLR female, placed at the source end of an XLR cable.
Can you recommend such adapters? I'm currently experimenting with the Monoprice cable and would like to test these adapters as well.
 
if I remember correctly
Thanks, I’m learning some forum’s abbreviations here:

-On the other hand: OTOH
-In my honest opinion: IMHO
-By the way: BTW
-If I remember correctly: IIRC

Don’t hesitate to tell if you know more, I’m not english native speaker and sometimes I take abbreviations as technical acronyms :)
 
Can you recommend such adapters? I'm currently experimenting with the Monoprice cable and would like to test these adapters as well.
The Monoprice cables are fine if you observe what KSTR said. RCA on the source end and XLR male at the opposite end.
 
So you can't recommend any adapter

Then run an XLR cable from here to the power amp or other device.
 
No please notice, the one you linked to is the wrong one. You don't want to use that one. You want male RCA to male XLR. Notice in your adress it is ma3frf (female to female) and KSTR's and mine are 3MRM (male to male). Thank you for trying to help, but you need to switch links to the correct adapter.

Yes you can remove the period at the very end of KSTR's link and it works.
Gosh, I didn’t watch the endings, just saw the suggestion in Thomanns site when tapping “seetronics xlr to rca adapter”. I delete the post, thanks for correction! :)
 
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