01-Jun-2017, 19:06
Ok, so my saga with companion cable is resolved and I want to share with the forum so people can avoid all my troubles.
I have Devialet Expert Pro 440 connected through a 3m (10 feet) RCA to XLR cable.
I tried numerous cable solutions from Crystal Cable (Reference, Standard), Siltech (90Ohm and 110Ohm), DH Labs (110Ohm), Sweetwater (110Ohm) and none of them works with 96khz and above high resolution files (companion speaker is silent). I thought that Sweetwater cable works, but it was only true on couple of songs.
After trying to resolve it with Devialet for over 6 months and tireless work of my dealer I found that you need a impedance transformer. I used Picolino RCA to AES/EBU (http://www.broadcastlines.com/Picolino_A..._conv.html) which is the only RCA to XLR converter we were able to find. I talked to Audio Prana about a custom cable with a transformer built in but they were not comfortable building a cable of that length.
We isolated the issue to the cable solution (tried many configs and several Devialet units).
It is hard to say what the cutout length is, but if you want RCA to XLR connector of any meaningful lenght it will not work well without a transformer.
Thanks everybody for your ideas throughtout the process.
I have Devialet Expert Pro 440 connected through a 3m (10 feet) RCA to XLR cable.
I tried numerous cable solutions from Crystal Cable (Reference, Standard), Siltech (90Ohm and 110Ohm), DH Labs (110Ohm), Sweetwater (110Ohm) and none of them works with 96khz and above high resolution files (companion speaker is silent). I thought that Sweetwater cable works, but it was only true on couple of songs.
After trying to resolve it with Devialet for over 6 months and tireless work of my dealer I found that you need a impedance transformer. I used Picolino RCA to AES/EBU (http://www.broadcastlines.com/Picolino_A..._conv.html) which is the only RCA to XLR converter we were able to find. I talked to Audio Prana about a custom cable with a transformer built in but they were not comfortable building a cable of that length.
We isolated the issue to the cable solution (tried many configs and several Devialet units).
It is hard to say what the cutout length is, but if you want RCA to XLR connector of any meaningful lenght it will not work well without a transformer.
Thanks everybody for your ideas throughtout the process.
Devialet 1000s, Belcanto 600Ms, Vivid Audio Giya G3, C1, V1w and sub, Trinnov AL16, QNAP TVS-471 NAS, Oppo 203, Siltech, Crystal Cable, Synergistic Research
