Question

[Audio Al]

Hi
I have seen this mentioned several times in threads and don't understand ?

" Balanced RCA'S "

So can anyone educate me :)


TA

[Puffin]

Sounds like an Oxymoron to me. You can have balanced jacks (stereo jack becomes mono), but I have never heard of a balanced RCA's. Pseudo balanced perhaps.

[TBL]

I think you must have miss read the posting. As far as I'm aware RCA are unbalanced always have been and always will be.

You might have seen the term "balanced XLR/RCA", but the balanced bit only refers to XLR.

[Audio Al]

This is one thread

http://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?t=18977&highlight=balanced+rca

[NRG]

Pseudo balanced is probably the best description, two twisted pair inner conductors (+ and -) with the overall screen connected at one end only via a flying earth lead. Its also possible to connect the screen at one end only to the negative inner conductor.

[The Grand Wazoo]

I think he just means he wants a CD player with more than two feet!


This is one thread
....actually, I read that as 'I have balanced inputs on my amp, so I wouldn't discount the chance of buying a CD player with balanced outputs'.

[TBL]

This is one thread

http://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?t=18977&highlight=balanced+rca

As I said you have misread misunderstood, the thread says balanced / rca

This is entirely different from balanced rca. Grammatically the use of the slash is used as a way to show alternatives . So he is saying must have Balanced or RCA inputs.

That's the correct use of a slash, but some also use it instead of and/& as well.

Hope that makes sense.

[YNWaN]

As I said you have misread misunderstood, the thread says balanced / rca

This is entirely different from balanced rca. Grammatically the use of the slash is used as a way to show alternatives . So he is saying must have Balanced or RCA inputs.

That's the correct use of a slash, but some also use it instead of and/& as well.

Hope that makes sense.

Yes, that is also as I read/understood it.

[Welder]

I wondered if the OP meant having the earth/shield and return connected at both ends which often gets called balanced RCA.

This is one way by which a balanced amplifier and say an unbalanced Dac can be connected up; XLR at one end, RCA at the other.
Balanced is a rather abused term in audio and having output suitable for balanced connection does not it seems necessarily mean that either end connects to a fully balanced circuit.