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RCA to XLR ground lift
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03-Jul-2025, 13:19
Inspired by another forum post, I’m looking to ground lift my Neutrik RCA socket to XLR male adapter. It currently has the red wire soldered to pin 2 and the black wire soldered to pin 1 with a connection joining 1 to 3. I’m thinking the black wire should be soldered to pin 3 only and pin 1 should be redundant. Correct?


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2014 Mac Mini running Roon via Vodafone hub/Amazon basics ethernet cable into:
  • Devialet 440 (RCA to ground lifted AES)
  • Focal Sopra 2 (YYAudio Black Magic speaker cable)
  • Rel S812 x 4 (std hi-level cables and £25 Van Damme Speakon array connects, Cruiser class £35 Chinese mains cables)
  • no intentional room treatment.
Chester, UK
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03-Jul-2025, 13:54
Correct!
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22-Jul-2025, 18:05
(03-Jul-2025, 13:19)Bertie Wrote: Inspired by another forum post, I’m looking to ground lift my Neutrik RCA socket to XLR male adapter. It currently has the red wire soldered to pin 2 and the black wire soldered to pin 1 with a connection joining 1 to 3. I’m thinking the black wire should be soldered to pin 3 only and pin 1 should be redundant. Correct?

Hello, i´m curious Wink  has the tuning brought an improvement for you?  Shy
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10-Aug-2025, 11:33
(22-Jul-2025, 18:05)fraha Wrote:
(03-Jul-2025, 13:19)Bertie Wrote: Inspired by another forum post, I’m looking to ground lift my Neutrik RCA socket to XLR male adapter. It currently has the red wire soldered to pin 2 and the black wire soldered to pin 1 with a connection joining 1 to 3. I’m thinking the black wire should be soldered to pin 3 only and pin 1 should be redundant. Correct?

Hello, i´m curious Wink  has the tuning brought an improvement for you?  Shy

Not that I’m aware of. Maybe I’d be better served pursuing a hobby less reliant on the acute auditory prowess our other tweakers have. Either that or I’ll have to resign myself to replacing major components to get my hit.
2014 Mac Mini running Roon via Vodafone hub/Amazon basics ethernet cable into:
  • Devialet 440 (RCA to ground lifted AES)
  • Focal Sopra 2 (YYAudio Black Magic speaker cable)
  • Rel S812 x 4 (std hi-level cables and £25 Van Damme Speakon array connects, Cruiser class £35 Chinese mains cables)
  • no intentional room treatment.
Chester, UK
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12-Aug-2025, 02:19
(10-Aug-2025, 11:33)Bertie Wrote: Not that I’m aware of. Maybe I’d be better served pursuing a hobby less reliant on the acute auditory prowess our other tweakers have. Either that or I’ll have to resign myself to replacing major components to get my hit.

Do you have any other connections to the slave Devialet other than the XLR?
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