Experience with LONG balanced IC's??

Ricardo
Ricardo Posts: 10,636
edited February 2009 in Electronics
I am already using balanced IC's everywhere; I want to move my rack to a side of the room, just leaving a small stand with the amp between the speakers and the front wall. This would require using approx. 15 ft IC's.

Has anyone done this and confirmed that there's no sound degradation? I know that in theory this would not be a problem using balanced, but they would not be cheap and would like to hear from someone that had some experience.
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  • TNRabbit
    TNRabbit Posts: 2,168
    edited February 2009
    It all depends entirely on your equipment, setup, and any noise sources. Many folks can run unbalanced that distance with no issues, while others must used balanced to avoid spurious noise from multiple sources. The only way to know for sure is to try it.
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited February 2009
    I ran 5 14' unbalanced cables from a pre/pro to a amp rack and never experienced any issues.
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  • Ricardo
    Ricardo Posts: 10,636
    edited February 2009
    I think I'm going to go for it. Thanks guys!
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  • Gadabout
    Gadabout Posts: 1,072
    edited February 2009
    Longest balanced run I have is 10'. No issues with noise or artifacts that I can detect in my 2ch setup
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  • ben62670
    ben62670 Posts: 15,969
    edited February 2009
    When I went to the Toby Keith concert they were runing balenced signals over 150'
    Don't worry with good cables.
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  • Dennis Gardner
    Dennis Gardner Posts: 4,861
    edited February 2009
    Balanced are made for long runs. I've done pro jobs with 100-200 foot runs with snakes that have 24 gauge pairs in them.
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited February 2009
    Dennis Gardner wrote: »
    Balanced are made for long runs.
    Yep, the advantage of the differential signal and full separate shield is immunity to noise.
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  • Marty913
    Marty913 Posts: 760
    edited February 2009
    Face wrote: »
    I ran 5 14' unbalanced cables from a pre/pro to a amp rack and never experienced any issues.

    Same here. I switched some equipment around on my last set-up (ATI 5-channel amp, Sony ES pre/pro) and moved the amp to a rack about 15 feet out. Absolutely no change whatsoever (and they were basic Esoteric IC's - nothing special).
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