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Review and Measurements of miniDSP SHD DAC, DSP And Streamer

Do you have any pictures of the finished cable (with the 12v trigger cable hanging off of it) and/or solderin
I am aiming to do the same for my nc400 monoblocks. Do you have any pictures of the finished cable (with the 12v trigger cable hanging off of it) and/or soldering?
Not at the moment, but indeed the trigger cable just comes out of the xlr plug with the other cables I used two twisted pairs of a lan cable.
The relays are fully inside the xlr plug, its quite a challenge to get it soldered in place :)
 
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Is there any danger to equipment to use an xlr splitter to an amp without a relay? My use case is connecting nc400 monoblocks to the minidsp shd (xlr output) and Denon x4800h (rca preamp output). On the Denon side I would use rca to xlr cable connected to one end of the xlr splitter for each channel, and on the minimal side I would use regular xlr cables. Is this a problem?

Edit: gave it a shot and it works okay. The signal isn't as high though, I guess because of the splitter, so I have to turn the SHD up about 7-10 db higher than before.
 
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Is there any danger to equipment to use an xlr splitter to an amp without a relay? My use case is connecting nc400 monoblocks to the minidsp shd (xlr output) and Denon x4800h (rca preamp output). On the Denon side I would use rca to xlr cable connected to one end of the xlr splitter for each channel, and on the minimal side I would use regular xlr cables. Is this a problem?

Edit: gave it a shot and it works okay. The signal isn't as high though, I guess because of the splitter, so I have to turn the SHD up about 7-10 db higher than before.

Connecting (basically shorting) two outputs together is not good idea.
Depending on the output impedance your output level will drop and can have even frequency response consequences.
I can imagine even some case where you could destroy an output depending on how high the other output can drive the signal.
If you want to connect two outputs in stead of switching them at least add mixing resistors of lets say 470R/1k in series with each output.

something like this:
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