Industry Standard - Zero Noise

Balanced Leads

1M Pair $50.00        - IN-STOCK

3M Pair $100.00      - IN-STOCK

5M Pair $150.00      - IN-STOCK

10M Pair $200.00    - AVAILABLE

 

1M and 3M Leads qualify.

Feel the need to buy exotic over priced Nancy Fancy XLR Leads from my competitors? Go right ahead... Readers of my website will know I am not into Tweekies and I have no time for products that promise much but deliver little. Spend you Hi-Fi dollars on value improving products and components not high margin useless muck.

When you use a Balanced Lead there is a separate earth conductor so this negates the need for expensive triple shielded RCA Leads of extreme quality to avoid any external induced noise. With Balanced technology, this issue just does not exist. There simply is no noise to begin with. A balanced lead carries the signal on two conductors + shield. The signals on each conductor are the same level but opposite in polarity, i.e. one is positive when the other is negative. A balanced input amplifies only the difference between the two signals and rejects any part of the signal which is the same in both conductors. Any noise or hum that is picked up by a balanced - 2 conductor cable - tends to be identical in both conductors and is therefore rejected by the Balanced input, while the equal but opposite polarity original signals are amplified.

Unbalanced Leads are one conductor and a braided 'Shield'. They have the HOT (+) signal running down the centre wire, and the COLD (-) and the GROUND (Earth) running down the outside shield together. They are unable to reject any electrical noise or hum that has been picked up by the lead and amplify any signal present in the conductor. Unbalanced leads are extremely susceptible to picking up noise and as such, they should only be used for short cable runs under 3 metres, eg. FX patch leads to and from the mixing desk. A long length of Unbalanced lead can act as a giant aerial, picking up all sorts of electrical noise and radio frequencies (RF), all of which will be amplified the same amount as the audio signal running down the line. Ever been to a gig when suddenly you hear Taxi radios blaring through the PA? This is usually the result of RF picked up by guitarists unbalanced pick-ups or leads.

This is why I use Industry Standard - Zero Noise Balanced Leads on my system. These Leads are the exact same that the Recording Industry have been using for the last half century in every professional multi million dollar sound studio Worldwide. You really think they use Nordost or Cardas Balanced Interconnects between their mixing desks and other equipment racks....

Dream on.