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!