Hi, I'm obviously new to pro audio. My setup consists of a stereo music system and a separate 5.1 system. I'm having trouble figuring out how to do an unbalanced to balanced connection for the music system. My speakers are the 8030c studio Genelecs which have XLR inputs, unlike their home oriented G series counterparts. The source is a Wiim Pro Plus streamer/preamp/DAC which has RCA and digital outputs.
I'm going to be adding a sub now, most likely the F series also from Genelec, because I have a great deal on it, it will integrate well with the speakers and looks good to me. The F series is also a consumer product and has RCA inputs and outputs, as well as a digital input.
Now Genelec on their site have an article concerning RCA to XLR situations, with a wiring diagram for suitable cabels. The one I have doesn't correspond to that.
They also told me the following:
"With 8030C those cables will not be the right ones since 8030C has balanced XLR and those cables are not, so there can be issues with those cables.
The noise can be issue most likely and the signal grounding wont happen with that cable. And in long run it can even harm the speaker since it is not meant to be used with that speaker."
Unlike the picture above, the cable I have is wired thusly:
Can anyone please advise on what cable to get? I've seen threads here mentioning the Monoprice one, but I'm in Europe and can't find that.
The Cordial CFU 3 MC seems to be wired according to the diagram, but I'm not sure. Also this cable on Amazon:
But you can see that the Cable Matters one that they advised against is similar, not like on the right above. So I'm not sure what the difference is.
They also advised me to connect the Wiim with Toslink to the sub. I'm just not sure what to connect the speakers with. This is the link to the article on their site:
Thanks!
I'm going to be adding a sub now, most likely the F series also from Genelec, because I have a great deal on it, it will integrate well with the speakers and looks good to me. The F series is also a consumer product and has RCA inputs and outputs, as well as a digital input.
Now Genelec on their site have an article concerning RCA to XLR situations, with a wiring diagram for suitable cabels. The one I have doesn't correspond to that.
They also told me the following:
"With 8030C those cables will not be the right ones since 8030C has balanced XLR and those cables are not, so there can be issues with those cables.
The noise can be issue most likely and the signal grounding wont happen with that cable. And in long run it can even harm the speaker since it is not meant to be used with that speaker."
Unlike the picture above, the cable I have is wired thusly:
Can anyone please advise on what cable to get? I've seen threads here mentioning the Monoprice one, but I'm in Europe and can't find that.
The Cordial CFU 3 MC seems to be wired according to the diagram, but I'm not sure. Also this cable on Amazon:
But you can see that the Cable Matters one that they advised against is similar, not like on the right above. So I'm not sure what the difference is.
They also advised me to connect the Wiim with Toslink to the sub. I'm just not sure what to connect the speakers with. This is the link to the article on their site:
Thanks!
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