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. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
