XLR to RCA cable


Hello,
My new phono preamp has both balanced and single ended outputs, but my line premap has only single ended inputs. I'm wondering whether there would be any sonic advantage to running an XLR-RCA cable from the phono preamp to the line preamp, such as this Mogami. I'd prefer not to waste money if there is a clear answer. Thank you.

XLR-RCA
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Showing 1 response by albertporter

The benefit of the XLR to RCA you link to at Amazon is making two audio pieces work together that don't have matching connections.

Even if your phono XLR out is true balanced the conversion to RCA at the other end means only two of the pins are being used. It now becomes single ended.

There is nothing wrong with the cable but unless you can hear the difference between the XLR versus RCA connector itself, there should be no benefit from this versus RCA - RCA.