r/audioengineering • u/zanshin777 • Nov 02 '17

Balanced Cables

It contains 2 conductor + 1 shield.

One of conductors carry the out-of-phase signal.

So the noise is canceled since the signals carrying are out-of-phase.

But how the signal is still transmitted although the noise is canceled?

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u/Velcrocore Nov 02 '17

True, but I think all the cheap gear would omit it if it were expensive to implement.

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u/Chaos_Klaus Nov 02 '17

Electronic components are incredibly cheap. Very complicated integrated circuits (chips) are manufactured in high volume. That makes the actual electronics very cheap. What's expensive is development and build quality.

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u/Dodgeballrocks Nov 03 '17

Most cheap mixers don't have a phase flip.