Assuming you mean you are using a 2 5 balanced to 3 5 unbalanced adapter.
Balanced to unbalanced converter cable.
A balanced audio cable has a ground wire but it also carries two copies of the same incoming audio signal sometimes referred to as a hot positive and cold negative signal.
The reverse unbalanced headphone cable to balanced source is when potential to damage the source occurs.
Unbalanced cables aren t good for doing long cable runs for this reason in fact you should be using balanced ones if the cable needs to be more than 10 15 meters long.
The 555 8454 line level converter incorporates four independent low noise audio amplifier circuits to provide two stereo audio channels.
Channel 1 accepts l r rca type unbalanced consumer line level inputs electronically balances the signal amplifies it to pro sound line level and supplies it to two male xlr output connections.
The structure of a balanced audio cable is similar to an unbalanced cable with one addition.
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This is especially true if it needs to be used in an environment where there s a lot of lights and other stuff that could cause interference.
The diagram above shows how the cable works.
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Unbalanced cables depending on their quality might be anywhere from 30 60 of the cost of their balanced counterparts.
In truth the main advantage an unbalanced cable has over a balanced cable is the cost.