>> The cheapest analog hardware method to convert from balanced to >> unbalanced requires two conditions: 1) the balanced output must >> come from a transformer (coil of wire on a ferrous core); _AND_ >> 2) you are willing to sacrifice a little noise floor in exchange >> for economy. That solution is to just ground one of the balanced >> wires and use the other as signal. > I know that this is the common way, but why would I do it that way if > there IMHO is a better one? As I had explained in my initial message, > there is noise which can be cancelled by using the line in as a > fake-balanced. > Btw, that noise is actually from the on-board wiring - it's there even > if nothing is connected to line input. And with the fake balanced, it is > cancelled, so I guess that Asrock have placed the wires for the left and > right channels in close proximity to each other on the mainboard, > allowing to use the advantages of fake-balanced signalling even there. Why not buy a better sound card? Kludging stuff to cancel out design incompetence will almost always come back to bite you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
