Re: Unbalanced stereo input as balanced mono input

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As mentioned, it's an experiment - I'm about to get better hardware, but 
found it interesting.
I'm actually suprised by furor I caused...

Am 24.08.2015 um 22:46 schrieb Bill Unruh:
>>> 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.
>
>


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