Hello, I just joined, primarily for the audiophile products. Looking at purchasing the NHT C3 speakers for our new living room. Space is about 15 feet wide by 33 long and they will fire long ways. Space is just for general listening, music room with all equipment is downstairs, so hoping they will fill it with sound nicely. Cheers.
Mar 18, 2024
The LSR30X has an XLR and TS input for each speaker.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XLR_connector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_connector_(audio)
Massdrop provides an 3.5mm to TS cable so they can be plugged into anything with a 3.5mm headphone jack, like you PC. https://www.amazon.com/Hosa-CMP-159-Stereo-Breakout-Cable/dp/B005HGM1D6/ref=sr_1_7?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1519093767&sr=1-7&keywords=3.5mm+to+TRS
If you have a better source like an external DAC with RCA outs that you can use a RCA to 1/4" cable like the one I have: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00K39U1NE/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
or use an adapter like this to go run to RCA cables to the LSR30X: https://www.amazon.com/DCFun-6-35mm-Female-Adapter-3-Pack/dp/B06XSC7XRJ/ref=sr_1_23?s=musical-instruments&ie=UTF8&qid=1519094326&sr=1-23&keywords=trs+to+rca
You can do the same with the XLR inputs: 3.5mm to XLR RCA to XLR XLR to XLR
https://www.amazon.com/Hosa-GXF-132-RCA-XLR3F-Adaptor/dp/B000068O4D/ref=sr_1_3?s=musical-instruments&ie=UTF8&qid=1519139947&sr=1-3&keywords=xlr%2Bto%2Brca%2Badapter&th=1
In the past they have been backed ordered and it took a bit longer to Receive.
Balanced works just fine if you discard one of the live wires (live wire #2 is the exact same signal as live wire #1, inverted), it's just more susceptible to hum and interference.
Sorry to be fussy about this, but I think you're trying to provide the definitive answer on what is a legitimately confusing topic. If you look at this picture from Wikipedia, the top plug is TRS (tip-ring-sleeve) and the bottom one is TS (tip-sleeve): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Jack_plug.png/330px-Jack_plug.png;
TRS provides 3 signal paths, which is why it's functionally the same as XLR. I agree that XLR is superior to TRS if you have the choice, mainly because it's impossible to screw up; we've all had the experience of headphones not quite being plugged all the way in. TRS and XLR balanced connections have 2 live wires, with live wire #2 being inverted. At the receiving side, live wire #2 is inverted again and live wires #1 & #2[inverted] are summed, which should cancel out most distortion such as 60 Hz hum. If live wire #2 is not connected in the first place, it doesn't matter as you are summing live wire #1 with null.