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Originally Posted by Jérôme W
I wonder what is the gain when someone uses a XLR cable on one end, on the XLR output of the ARC REF 2, and unbalanced at the other end of the cable, into RCA inputs of a line preamp. ???
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Jerome, It would be the 68db gain for unbalanced. You need balanced all the way to the amp if you are to get the 6db gain.
If I had fully balanced system I would use rca and xlr connection. Depending on cartridge you could have 4 different gain settings.
To the op. I would try the balanced low gain setting and see if that sounds more pure and you have enough gain -all things being equal, it should sound better as it has one less gain stage.
Then try comparable rca cable at the 68 db gain. Then keep which one sounds better.
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