Balanced Interconnect advice please

[juboy]

I've just purchased a Classe CDP .5 CD player to partner my Krell KAV300i amp.

As the Classe allows me to take advantage of the balanced inputs on the Krell, I need a new cable. Anyone got any suggestions as to (a) which cable would be a good bet (<£100) and (b) somewhere online that actually sells them.

TIA

 

[penance]

https://www.audio-forums.com/as-rediect/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2935

 

[wadia-miester]

JB, I believe scropion cables are fair, might be worth a shot I reckon, else some starquad will be more than apt

 

[joel]

Originally posted by wadia-miester
else some starquad will be more than apt

As long as you aren't paying 100quid a metre for it
Mic cable terminated with ITT or soundcraft XLRs is fine. Take a trip down to your local pro audio / instrument dealer for short pre-terminated lengths.

 

[wadia-miester]

I don't understand this 100m M.O.Q.?, we've got meters of the stuff maplins sell the stuff by the meter off the roll.
You could even ask RS for a sample

 

[juboy]

Thanks for the replies. I've sent a mail to Paul at Scorpion to see if they'll make up an XLR terminated I/C for me.

Being totally new to the balanced connection side of things, could someone tell me what the advantages are? I know there's a 6dB boost and better dynamic headroom... anything else?

 

[Gustavo]

Originally posted by juboy
Being totally new to the balanced connection side of things, could someone tell me what the advantages are? I know there's a 6dB boost and better dynamic headroom... anything else?

I've been using balanced for two month, after many, many test between two worlds I have my thoughts.
Balanced:
-Less cable influence, you can use a good or a very good cable with almost no noticeable change in the overall sound (just my experience).
-More signal to noise ratio.
-More dynamic sound.
-Balanced shows all the CDs pros and cons, some loss in warm.

Unbalanced:
-Incredible cable influence in the way the system sounds (nothing new at all).
-More warm and sweet sound, less bright sound for some records(cable dependent).
-You can match your equipment sound very easily, just try some different cables and that's it.

I'm using a creek CD53 cd player with a NAD S300 integrated amplifier with audioquest python balanced and Ecosse Maestro unbalanced. Also I tried with ordinary inexpensive balanced, python unbalanced and audioquest Diamondbacks.

Many greetings from Chile.

Gustavo Villa