Originally Posted By bridgman
Thanks Andrew. Very useful.

I had been planning to use RCA from pre-amp to DSPs and XLR from DSPs to amps... how bad would this be ? I did have a vague nagging thought that XLR signal levels were traditionally higher than RCA levels but was thinking that just meant I shouldn't be using XLR-to-RCA cables anywhere.


With RCA in to the DSP and XLR out you will be fine, you'll just have 6dB of additional gain which will likely result in the same output level from your amplifier as if you had used the RCA input (assuming your amp has a truly balanced input). The other way round (XLR in and RCA out) would result in a loss of 6dB of gain and you would probably clip the DSP before being able to drive your amp to full power. Our DSPs are unity gain so that 1 Vrms in equals 1 Vrms out RCA to RCA or XLR to XLR.

Thanks,

Andrew