30 foot long Balanced Cables to Balanced/RCA Adapters into Amp's Stereo RCA inputs?


I put this under 'cables', and am repeating it here because I always get good help here.

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I just bought Blu-Ray player: Oppo BDP-105, arrives in a few days.

 Primarily for it's 2 channel audio quality.

It just occurred to me, I could use all of it's audio, video, future streaming features if I:

1. Locate it in the small Home Theater system

2. HDMI to AVR of Home Theater, and

3. Balanced Outputs (audio only): 30 feet to the 2 channel amp in main music system (far end of the same room), use balanced/rca adapters at the amps rca in jacks.

then I could always access/see the menu for audio setup, and use all of it's capabilities
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I've never used Balanced Cables.

Advice? Concerns? Avoid doing this!!!

I could buy 50 ft cable for more slack both ends: any reason to keep it to 30 ft?

thanks for any help,

Elliott

elliottbnewcombjr

Showing 2 responses by mijostyn

Elliot, if you do not feel like spending a lot of money on this just run 30 foot single ended Low loss coaxial cable. Like Canare L-4.5CHWS. Someone will have to terminate it and may have to modify RCAs because this cable is rather thick. The inner conductor is 18 gauge which is huge for a single ended cable. I believe you can buy the cable by the foot. If you can not terminate them yourself I would be happy to do it for you. I do not charge for this kind of work. It might take me 20 minutes.
Not a bad idea clearthinker, but the losses with the right cables are not the bad, he might lose 1 dB at 20 kHz which many of us can not hear anyway. Before balanced ins and outs became popular those of us with amps behind our speakers frequently had to run long single ended lines. The benefit of mono amps and short speaker cables was well worth the longer lines. With good cable it is not the end of the world. But, when you buy commercial interconnects you really do not know what you are getting. Companies like Canare and Belden publish the specs of their cable so, you know exactly what you are getting. Plus, when you make your own you can make them as short as possible. You do not have to go to the next longer length and coil the excess behind the equipment.