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Sex and the balanced interconnect.

Caught your eye, didn't it.

I am contemplating a new line level crossover, and it comes with XLR balanced outputs. My power amps have XLR balanced inputs, so I thought...why not give balanced a try. The problem is that both the crossover and the amps have female connectors, so that the interconnect needs to be male on both ends (just like an rca interconnect). I find cables offered with a wide variety of connector configurations, but I can't find any XLR cables configured male-to-male, although I could put in a special order and have them made.

Is it unusual to require male-to-male configuration?
eldartford

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drrdiamond
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Any cable company will configure the cable anyway that you want, if you pay for it and it may not cost anything extra.

But, I too would be very surprised that you need such an interconnect. I have never heard of such a situation, and would be leery of a company that required this strange hookup. If you can afford it, Krell probably make the best electronic crossover and will configure it for virtually any speaker....and it uses the standard setup.

Your electronic crossover should require two types of XLR interconnect ends, both male and female. One is for the input and one for the output.

Richard
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