Re: [AH] Gear with balanced outputs

From James Black
Sent Mon, Dec 17th 2018, 12:50

Yamaha CS-40M has an XLR output labeled balanced in the circuit diagram, =
so I assume legit.

> On Dec 16, 2018, at 8:48 PM, Michael E Caloroso =
<xxx.xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
>=20
> Very very few synths have balanced outputs.  Memorymoog and Polymoog
> are the only two Moog synths I can think of.  None of the Oberheims.
> JP8 had balanced XLR outputs, not many other Rolands.  Hard pressed to
> think of any Yamaha or Korg synths either.
>=20
> Note that XLR jacks do NOT automatically imply balanced I/O.  Even
> some pro audio gear - like the Drawmer DS201 dual gate - do NOT have
> balanced I/O despite the XLR jacks.  With the exception of the Chroma,
> all the ARP keyboards had unbalanced outputs - even those with XLR
> jacks!