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I have an old Fostex that I want to use on a temporary basis for some
live mixing applications in a small room. It doesn't have any balanced
outs, and the stereo and monitor outs are just RCAs. So if I want to
send the signal 40 or 50 feet, what's the easiest way to do that?

I think I could send the RCA to a male quarter-inch, stick that into a
DI box and then run an XLR to the powered speaker's (Peavey PR 12P) mic
input. Stop me if I'm wrong on that. But is there a better way?

It's often considered a good idea to protect your speakers with
compressors/limiters between your mixer an your power amplifiers.
These often provide both balanced and unbalanced I/O that can be
handy to solve the problem you here present.

And the tangential question is this: I've rented passive DI boxes
before and used them for guitars and keyboards. I've had no
complaints. Would a couple passive boxes work okay for driving my
speakers or do active boxes make more sense here?

I wouldn't use DIs for this application, passive or active.

Thanks.

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