Unbalance RCA out to Balanced XLR Input

[stiletto pat]

Does anyone out there have any experience with outputing from a standard home audio (RCA standard line out) to a professional amplifier standard Balanced XLR connector input? Thinking of a couple of these lower cost amps to power some outdoors speakers.

Comments?

Pat

 

[Mudcat]

Wouldn't be a problem. Just connect the RCA shell to Pins 1 and 3 on the XLR, and the RCA Pin to Pin 2 on the XLR. You may want to double or triple check my explanition of the XLR pins, I cannot find one of my manuals that has what I'm looking for. But XLR has three pins 1 = ground, 2 = signal, 3 = return.

 

[sixdouble532one]

http://www.mediacollege.com/audio/connection/xlr-rca-1.html

 

[sixdouble532one]

when the conector has a third pin like that allows the signal at both end to be compared to one another and to make sure what is going in one end is the same comming out the other. removing it just subtracts this proccess and it gets ignored.