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balanced unbalanced audio?
 

offline john is fast from sacramento (United States) on 2002-12-25 04:39 [#00490800]
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what does this mean? which one is stereo which one is mono?


 

offline magiker from Östersund (Sweden) on 2002-12-25 05:08 [#00490808]
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Where did you find that?


 

offline nano from Malmö (Sweden) on 2002-12-25 05:20 [#00490809]
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I believe that balanced is when there is a third cable
inside the cable.. that takes care of the disturbance around
and then the whole thing subtracts the signal in the
distrubance cable from the normal one and kazoom: Better
sound.

Its probably wrong but it all has to do with a third cable
inside the original cable and that the whole thing reduces
noices.

And i am high on chocolate right now and just suck at
english. wooh.


 

offline Cheffe1979 from fuck (Austria) on 2002-12-25 05:39 [#00490812]
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usual stereo is achieved by two separated signals in two
wires (=unbalanced), in principle the right and the left
channel arent linked in any way. since usually the signals
are pretty much the same (aside from stereo effects of
course) they can also be splitted into an "avarage" signal,
that is the sum of the two incoming ones, and a "difference"
signal that makes the stereo effects.

but maybe not.


 

offline sadist from the dark side of the moon on 2002-12-25 09:27 [#00490893]
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"Balanced" audio interconnects, supported on the best
consumer gear, provide superior noise rejection as compared
with "unbalanced" (coaxial) interconnects, because they
benefit from a phenomenon known as "common mode noise
rejection," where outside electrical noise affects both
conductors equally and, in effect, cancels itself out. If
your gear supports balanced connections, your sound may
benefit from making use of them.



 

offline john is fast from sacramento (United States) on 2002-12-25 17:18 [#00491187]
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ok so let me just ask this. a usb audio device called
quatro has 4 balanced outputs and 4 balanced inputs. are
each output a stereo output or am I only going to be able to
send either right or left through each out and therefor end
up with really only 2 stereo outs.
if that makes sense.



 

offline J198 from Maastricht (Netherlands, The) on 2002-12-25 18:10 [#00491203]
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aight for real, mad props to the non english/american people
here who not only know tons of stuff but also know how to
say it all in english. RESTECP!


 

offline hepburnenthorpe from sydney (Australia) on 2002-12-25 21:17 [#00491273]
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4 balanced out and ins, is still only 2 stereo outs and
ins.

both balanced for higher quiality sound.


 

offline Use from Miami,Fl-Northern WI (United States) on 2002-12-25 22:38 [#00491286]
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i know that quattro box...u have 4 balanced, thats 2 stereo
channels as hepburn said. But to contain that balanced sound
quality from your computer, your going to to need totally
balanced connections from your box to your mixer, and from
your mixer to your speakers..so make sure you ask about
this stuff when purchasing
much peace,
Use


 

offline john is fast from sacramento (United States) on 2002-12-26 13:25 [#00491768]
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I won't be getting that box then, 2 stereo channels just
isn't enough I need at least 4. well... need isn't the
right word but I want at least 4.
_john


 

offline dave_g from United Kingdom on 2002-12-26 14:17 [#00491817]
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balanced inputs/outputs eliminate problems with unbalanced
cables, such as ground loops, by using a single earth
instead of one earth per channel( as in stereo phone, left
earth and right earth). The balanced output is a stereo
output, since balanced=stereo. 4 balanced outputs would be 4
stereo outputs. to keep everything balanced use xlr cables,
or similar,not phono!


 


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