re adcom cheap products in article mdonahue x amiganet chi il us mdonahue amiganet chi il us mike donahue writes as for adcoms mobil they are going with amps that canb use balanced inputs a very nice toy but i m afraid its goig to push their amps beyound resonable price ranges especialy because taking advantage of those balanced inputs requires a rca to balanced adapter umm when i was doing sound reinforcement for a living i used to get direct boxes which convert unbalanced jacks to balanced xlrs for about each or a little more for higher quality you ll need two for a stereo signal of course and a little adapter thingy from radio sh t to convert from rca to total cost should be around you can also buy transformers for quite a bit less and wire them yourself total cost there should be under you can get all this stuff from any pro music shop that sells sound reinforcement gear the benefit no noise that you can hear will be generated in the cables going to the component with the balanced inputs even when you run them in bad places like next to power lines john bell nasa langley research center bell hops larc nasa gov
