Emo xlr cable ???

[tsalter9]

Does or has any one used the emo XLR cables and if so can you tell me of any difference good or bad VS RCA cables.

[509Paul]

My whole system is all XLR cables and HDMI. I don't know if there is any difference compared to RCA but I was interested in the potential noise suppression that XLR provides.

I use the Canare L-4E6S Star Quad Balanced Audio Cable with the Neutrik XLR connectors from Blue Jeans Cable. 

[mshump]

Music Direct just had the Audioquest Diamanodback .5 m pair for 64.00.
My system is much quieter now. I noticed a very slight difference, My wife said she thought the music seemed fuller over the old RCA's


Mark

[yeeeha17]

I have both monorice and emotiva xlr cables and you can't hear the difference. The emo cables are wrapped nicer but the mono cables are thicker. You can't go wrong with the either

[boomzilla]

I've used both RCA and XLR cables from Emotiva and lots of other makers. I think (not really sure, so maybe not) I can hear a difference between XLR & RCA but it may be expectation bias.

I've used LOTS of different brands. For interconnects, I hear no difference.

For speaker wires, the only two that I thought made a difference (not necessarily an improvement, just an audible difference) were Kimber TC series (tames bright top ends, maybe because of extra capacitance from all the braiding) and Nordost ribbon wires (bright as all get out - why? I don't know).

Now the "wire is wire" crowd would poo-pooh even those differences and challenge me to "prove it!" in an ABX test. Me, it isn't worth the effort. I heard what I heard. If you buy decent components & speakers, you don't need "equalizer wires" to balance things out anyway.

So what's in my system now? A pair of 9 ga. bi-wire cables I got off eBay for $80 and for my center channel, a pair of short, but high-quality wires I bought on the Emporium from novisnick (and thanks again - they're NICE wires!). The interconnects are a mix of Bluejeans cable welded XLRs, a pair of Emotiva XLRs, and some LONG Bluejeans cable welded RCAs feeding the subs.

And despite the modest amounts spent on all the wiring, everyone who's heard it oohs and aahs over the sound of the system. Do I think that any extra expenditure on wiring would make any audible improvement in the sound? Having tried some more expensive (FAR more expensive) cables in the mix, I'd have to say no. The system sounds just as good with the Toyota grade wire as it would with the Rausch-Maybach grade stuff, to make an auto analogy.

And as my signature says, my advice (as everyone else's on the internet) is worth every penny you pay for it.

Cheers - Boomzilla

[Gary Cook]

I have 5 metre Emotiva XLR cables running from the XSP-1 to the XPA-1L's and the XPA100 (sub woofer amp) and they do reduce the introduced noise ever so slightly. With the 5 metre RCA cables in place every now and then I would get a very faint buzz, totally inaudible with any music playing, even quiet background music. But in a silent passage I would occasionally hear this quite buzz, that only last a few seconds then it would stop. Something turning on and off perhaps, not really a problem, easily ignored, but you know how it goes. I'd been looking for the source for a few months when I finally found it, the ice maker in the fridge, when the motor flipped out some more ice it caused the buzz.

We've had that fridge for a number of years and I'd never really noticed the buzz before last year, when on buying the XPA-1L's, I changed from short RCA interconnects (500 mm) and long speaker cables (5 metres) to long interconnects (5 metres) and short speaker cables (1 metre). Since I was using a USP-1 I had no choice but to utilise long RCA interconnects for the Left and Right (the sub has an XLR cable). A couple of weeks ago I changed to the XSP-1 and 5 metre Emotiva XLR cables for the Left and Right inputs to the XPA-1L's and bingo no more buzz.

Long story, short answer, for long runs using XLR's can be an advantage if there is an introduced noise problem. For short runs where there's no discernible introduced noise, then RCA's work just fine.


Cheers
Gary

[tsalter9]

thanks for the input , I have a few ( old) xlr's now , one went bad but I can't complain , may get a full set of EMO's and see how they do , for the price it could be worth it and it AINT going to hurt ....lol

[tsalter9]

And I thought I locked the keys up , wait until I get ahold of my butler !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...lol