What does this mean?

"Interconnect 1.5 meter Balanced RCA" - I thought only XLR or phone connections could be balanced? What am I missing here? Can someone explain?

ivanj05-16-2002 1:27pm

rwwear Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 2,883 posts 05-17-2002 at 03:26am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete This simply means that the cable has three conductors inside even though it has RCA's on the end. It has two conductors and a shield. The cable can easily be made fully balanced by replacing the RCA's with XLR's. All one has to do is solder the red wire to pin two the black wire to pin three and the shield to pin one. Or, for Europeans use the black wire for pin two and the red wire for pin three.
rwwear Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 2,883 posts 05-17-2002 at 11:09am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Most High quality interconnects do have three conductors and it's only a matter of installing XLR's to use them in a balanced system. Another item of importance is that the sheild should not be connected at one end and not the other. This can make the cable act as an RF antenna.
rwwear Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 2,883 posts 05-18-2002 at 03:20pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Not True. If you are not going to terminate the sheild at both ends you shouldn't terminate it at either in an unbalanced system. This doesn't mean that you will automatically have RF problems if you do not comply with this rule, but you can.