According to Sound on Sound magazine, it's quite customary for "high-end " gear to have UNbalanced outputs. ?

I don't know if that is true, but I recently got a nice Millennia NSEQ-2 and it has balanced inputs and unbalanced outputs.

So, should I use balanced cables in, and unbalanced cables out ?

i've read stuff about certain peices of equiptment being balanced and unbalanced and stuff like that. on my 8-track, fostex mr-8, I have two balanced XLR inputs and two unbalanced 1/4" inputs.

Now, I just got a mixer (Soundcract Series 1S) and someone said something that its pin 3 hot. I don't know if that's unbalanced or balanced...

The PCI interface card I'm looking at buying (the RME Digi96/8 PAD) has only UNBALANCED analog inputs. Almost all the threads I've read here talk about the advantage of going all balanced. Should I drop it from consideration or is the lack of balanced inputs not a problem?

I would like to get a patchbay to make patch changes easier in my rack.

Im looking at the Beringher px2000 or px1000. What is the difference between Balanced and Unbalanced? (the PX2000 is unbalanced.)

All my cables are 1/4" mono plugs for routing around the various boxes. Some times I do voice through the same rack.

Hi all!
I recently read this review on the mpc-1000 and one of the cons was that it had unbalanced outputs... What's so bad about un-balanced outputs and why (I assume) are balanced outputs better? Thanks..

what are the real advantages of having balanced inputs/outputs ? will not the unbalanced outputs of a mixer (UB502, TS) into the unbalanced inputs of a Monitor (Event TR6, RCA) sound as good, as say their XLR counterparts ? also for other connections, especially over rather short distances ?

Hi!

What to doooo. .?

Keep on,
Murdock

p.s. - it's a big diference?

Hopefully this doesn't irrevocabley damage my reputation but please help:

Can't I use a balnced cable(trs) to carry an unbalanced signal?

And why can't I use a unbalanced cable on a balanced (TRS jack) output.

I have a phono patchbay and I'm curious how routing signals will be affected.

Thanks so much!

Am using a Mackie 1604 for live board and came across a noise problem last weekend. The monitor output is an unbalanced TR jack and was connected to a 100 snake via a 1/4 TRS jack. This fed a TRS input into my amp on stage for the monitors.

My question(s):

1) Should I opt to buy all balanced cables or just use balanced cables with gear that can make use of it?

2) Using balanced cables with gear that doesn't use it necessarily... any potential problems? (i.e. using a TRS/balanced cable with a synthesizer and patchbay)