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Need 25 foot interconnects

I just moved around my equipment so that the rack with the preamp and digital sources is on the left side of the room and the monoblock amps are just behind the left speaker on a short platform on the floor.  I’m using a 15’ RCA interconnect right now, but want to move each monoblock to just behind each speaker — which means I need a longer cable.  The monoblocks are unbalanced RCA input only but my preamp can do balanced XLR or unbalanced RCA out.  Would a balanced XLR cable plus an XLR to RCA adapter work for this setup and be my best option?  Or should I just get a Belden (or similar) 25’ unbalanced RCA interconnect?  Or is there a better option?   

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@erik_squires 

 

This is exactly what I would do in his situation, balanced might be better if you have tons of noise from other equipment like recording studios do, but in the home environment it's unlikely, though it does happen every once and a while.

invalid
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I'm running 20' RCA cables and it didn't make a difference in sound when I used a 3' RCA cable, I compared them in the same room with the same equipment. I'm not saying your balanced output may not sound better, but I don't think that going from 15' to 25' with RCA is going to make any difference, unless you are picking up noise on your RCA cables.

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@dougthebiker 

 

That's not entirely true you don't need differentially balanced equipment to have balanced outputs and inputs, it can be single ended inside the circuit in the equipment and you can still have balanced inputs and outputs, there are a few different ways to do it a transformer is one way.

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