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
I like balanced stuff, but the difference between balanced and single-ended is usually pretty subtle.
I guess for my own use case, I am interested in hardware that helps me get the most objective listening experience because I'm trying to do film audio mixing, but I also don't have THAT much money to spend. So my DAC is an Asus Xonar U5, my headphone amp is the Schiit Magni 3, and I use really cheap Samson SR850s (I really like listening to these just for personal music stuff, and they sound fairly clean at least to me?). I've ordered the HiFiMan HE400 and Sennheisser HD 58X on Massdrop, but it'll be a while before those arrive.
So I think I was thrown for a bit of a loop when I hear the word "balanced" in the context of all of that and when I research into it I'm like "wait, it was originally developed for microphones?"
*shrug*
Differential signaling is also needed for long cable runs. Say you are building a 5.1 system and using active speakers for the rear, you are much better off using XLR over RCA because the RCA is rated for shorter lengths and can pick up more noise. There's a reason why ethernet cables are twisted pairs.