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Plinius noise with balanced cables

Hello gentlemen, I saw a post recently regarding some noise was experiencing with their Plinius and now I can't seem to find it.  I'll keep looking as it's no longer in my history.  Anyway, I'm experiencing some white noise with the balanced cables only, not the RCAs.  I'd like to use the balanced cables so I can also use RCAs into my headphone amp rather then having to keep disconnecting said RCAs.  I'll be bringing it in soon albeit I hate part with it.  I was hoping someone could shed some light on this in the meantime?

Thank you
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atmasphere
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but I have to put my ear to my tweeters to hear it.  
If that is the only time you hear it then its no worries whatsoever.
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OK. If you plug in the balanced cables, but don't have anything at the other end, do you get the noise?
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It might be that Plinius is using an additional circuit to convert from balanced to single-ended. This is a common practice (not one I'm in love with...).  If the opamp associated with the conversion has gone noisy, that would certainly explain why you don't hear the noise on the RCA input.


Does it do it without the cables attached (no input, but set to balanced)?
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