On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 22:47:43 -0400, Michael Dombrowski
wrote:

Having a piece of balanced gear(D/A converter) that I want to connect to
my preamp/amp but not wanting to pay for a balanced/unbalanced converter
box lead me to hook up a pair of headphones to the + balanced out and
ignoring the - balanced out. This seemed to work just fine, any real
reason to not go this route when I wire up the cable for real? I'm only
using short cable runs so noise shouldn't be a problem. Only thing that
comes to mind is that the signal strength might be reduced by half, but
my preamp/amp should be able to take care of that, no?

The standard way of unbalancing a connection is to use the +, tie the
- to screen. Don't worry about the level.

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