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Massdrop x MEE audio 2-Pin Balanced Cable Set
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Massdrop x MEE audio 2-Pin Balanced Cable Set
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Ready to upgrade to balanced cables? This set includes a 53-inch braided cable with shielding, plus a 2.5-millimeter balanced plug that can be alternated with the 3.5-millimeter balanced, 4.4-millimeter balanced, and 3.5-millimeter single-ended adapters Read More
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keyboard_arrow_downCEE_TEE
3480
Sep 10, 2018
“Audiophile cables” can be a touchy subject. Pricing is often expensive and claims of sonic improvement can cause debate.
In order to receive quality and professionalism, the pricing for cables can be quite high.
In order to get better pricing, cables can take a long time to be custom-made by a one-man shop or sent overseas from an unknown vendor. Cables can arrive with incorrect wiring, a plug that wasn’t shown on the website, or connectors that don’t fit the same as stock connectors.
We take a practical approach when it comes to cables...deliver high quality at reasonable prices and help connect the gear in your collection.
With this collaboration, we worked with our partners at MEE audio to create an affordable cable package for 2-pin in-ear monitors that covers your needs for all the best portable gear.
2.5mm TRRS cable: The cable allows you to connect to digital audio players such as the Astell&Kern or FiiO series, which feature fully balanced output jacks for additional power and control with even lower distortion on the signal.
3.5mm TRRS adapter: For balanced output jacks that use 3.5mm. (Please take care to use the correct plug if your device has two different 3.5mm jacks. TRS is for single-ended and TRRS is for balanced.)
2.5mm TRRS cable: The cable allows you to connect to digital audio players such as the Astell&Kern or FiiO series, which feature fully balanced output jacks for additional power and control with even lower distortion on the signal.
3.5mm TRRS adapter: For balanced output jacks that use 3.5mm. (Please take care to use the correct plug if your device has two different 3.5mm jacks. TRS is for single-ended and TRRS is for balanced.)
dleblanc
246
Dec 8, 2018
Any update on this?
Also similarly, I have an idea:
Massdrop should try to manufacture a 4 pin xlr female to quarter inch plug adaptor, as well as/or a quarter inch female to 4 pin xlr male adaptor for users with different amps who don't want to have notorious adaptors with cables that change coloration such as these:
CEE_TEE
3480
Sep 15, 2018
TamPrsWe are trying to nail down the quantity and timing on 2.5mm to 4-pin XLR adapters now...thank you for asking. Hopefully we’ll have the plan soon!
springbay
108
Sep 13, 2018
Could someone tell me what the XLR to 2,5mm balanced adapter used with the Cavali Liquid Carbon amp is called and where I could buy one? My Google-fu is failing me. Thanks!
upsguys8848
8
Dec 5, 2018
@CEE_TEE Can these be made without the plastic hooks? Or the plastic by the ear connectors can be removed? Would like it straight for my iSine20
LongLiveRock
153
Sep 29, 2018
Mine just arrived this afternoon. This is my current set-up, with files coming from my LG V30 (taking the picture) and Tidal. I'm only 10 minutes into it, but so far, very good. With my Noble X and Astell&Kern XB10, I was a clear potential customer.
Sethkot
4
Apr 21, 2019
But damn the price of this cable isn’t even that far from ED3! It would be very similar to EDC I believe
Is this cable a lot better than the braided stock EC3 cable?
LongLiveRock
153
Apr 25, 2019
SethkotI don't know. I've never heard the EDC3s. But the main difference will come from the balanced versus the unbalanced nature of the cables, not the quality of the components necessarily, which are probably similar. I will admit that I couldn't hear a big difference swapping the balanced cable into the EDCs from the braided stock cable. But I could hear a difference swapping the balanced cable into the Noble Xs. I now use the Noble Xs solely with this balanced cable.
Audiopro
166
Aug 29, 2019
Of course you all realize that balanced cables in the short lengths used in home audio make LITTLE to NO difference in sound quality. Balanced technology was developed back in the telephone and radio days and still exists today in professional audio to reduce interference from electrical, magnetic and radio frequency sources. Balanced cables are most effective when long runs of hundreds of feet, or more, are used in studio, live recordings and sound re-enforcement. Most microphones, because of the extremely low level delicate signal, require balanced cables to help reject these interferences. At the relatively higher levels of the line sources, in most home audio, interference of this type is very unlikely.
So called "Audiophile Cables" is a touchy subject because of the prevailing lack of knowledge as to what balanced really means. Many of the cables offered as balanced are not really balanced at all. I am a recording engineer and use balanced cables all the time, even building my own when necessary. I do live concert recording and am usually running several 25ft to 100ft cables all over venues where complex high voltage electrical wires are present everywhere, not to mention wireless aids for hard of hearing audience members. At home, in my living room stereo/surround system, unbalanced works just fine.
KuroYariman
61
Mar 7, 2020
AudioproSo I have a question? I replied to a post at the top of this page calling this product snake oil!
My assumption was that there’s a difference between the meaning of balanced used in recording equipment and headphones. Because in headphones the only function is to separate the ground for each channel, supposedly reducing cross talk.
So since they clearly don’t function in the same way as balanced recording equipment. Do you believe that this use of the word balanced could represent to different functions for different applications?
BTW the way some audiophiles use balanced is often to drive higher impedance headphones. Where the dac/amp, “usually portable from what I’ve seen” outputs more power for each channel when in balanced rather than unbal.
If you could take a look at my reply to snake oil guy pls do!! Ignorance is death!!
Audiopro
166
Mar 18, 2020
KuroYarimanIn my world "Balanced" is "Balanced" and that means 3 wires/connection. One for the + side off the signal, one for the - side and a separate one for the ground/shield. There is no such thing as a two wire balanced connection. In audio, especially pro audio, we have to shield both sides of a signal (-/+) from the effects of interference. If the shield or ground is being used for a part of the signal transfer, then half the signal is susceptible to interference, and therefore the whole purpose of "balanced" i.e. to provide a separate path to ground for interference, has been defeated. Two RCA cables will give you a separate shield wire for each channel, but those shields will be connected to a common electrical point in the device (Amp, or Headphones), hence no more separate ground. Electricity travels very, very fast and so doesn't care where the common connection happens.., could happen sooner, or later (amp or phones). Volume levels are a whole other thing and involve standards.
In pro audio, line level is +4db, or 14db higher than consumer line level, which is -10db. This difference helps create a better signal to noise ratio, much needed to handle the chores of recording and mixing several channels of audio down to stereo or multi-channel final product. This provides a better chance to keep the overall S/N ratio low through out the process. These conditions don't exist in consumer audio where only the final product is being experienced. I maintain that the claims of "balanced" in the devices you are interested in are mostly false, and more suited to creating sales. The final impedance of a device is due to the internal design circuitry and can be manipulated in any way a clever manufacturer wants to. Changing the wires do nothing to change this. The US Telephone service operated on a 600ohm balanced system, for decades, to enable better matching of external devices and facilitate patching calls from one area to another. This was referred to as 'impedance matching" and ran at that 600ohm value, which is considered high in the headphone world. When output impedance matches input impedance, transfer between devices is effortless as they cancel each other and enable calls to go across the country unimpeded, so to speak. Ok, this is too much talk.., sorry.
Angusdru
9
Mar 7, 2019
The description mentions that this product will work with Massdrop Made models like the Massdrop Plus, MEE audio Planamic, NuForce EDC and EDC3, and Noble X and Kaiser 10. I'm interested if cable set will work with the Optima HEM6 and HEM8 items that are also available here. FEEDBACK ???
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