Help ($200 sound cards)?

[Garik]

What is the difference between ballanced and unballanced?

unballanced...........-10db

ballanced................+4 db

ballanced connections is safer and cleaner signal path no matter what.

 

[Kevin Deschwazi]

From everything I had read the 2496 has a SPDIF connection as well so I can leave the V-Amp plaugged into that full time and my mixer plugged into the RCA jacks full time for Bass, Vocals, amped guitar and so on. This should work I do beleive....

Yep, I've used a Delta 1010LT for a while and everything just stays hooked up. And yes the 2496 has spdif in/out.

 

[gordone]

Nope, balanced vs. unbalanced is different then the operating level of the equipment (-10 vs. +4). What confuses people is that generally balanced connections run at +4 and unbalanced at -10. But you can have unbalanced +4 (my Great River MP2 runs at +4, unbalanced out of XLR jacks) or balanced -10 (although this is probably hard to find)

unballanced...........-10db

ballanced................+4 db

ballanced connections is safer and cleaner signal path no matter what.

 

[tnjazz]

HERE'S a nice concise explanation of the difference.