XLR speaker to Booth Jack or Master RCA?
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March 10, 2017 at 3:57 pm #2539431
Stephaan Vandenbroeck
ParticipantDid a little research and I found this article:
http://www.digitaldjtips.com/2011/07/the-essential-guide-to-audio-cables-for-djs/
So if I understand, I need the TRS type jack with three parts to make it a balanced signal.
March 10, 2017 at 4:19 pm #2539471Caleb Grayson
Participantyou want to use the Booth for Monitors..Booth means monitors in DJ parlance. another name is FoldBack.
don’t those HK’s have a combo XLR/1/4″ Jack? if not then you can use a 1/4″ to XLR adaptor or even better yet a transformer/DI box, but at short distance this isn’t really necessary.
March 10, 2017 at 6:31 pm #2539601Stephaan Vandenbroeck
ParticipantHi Caleb,
Thanks for the advice. The HK Pro 15 xd doesn’t have any other IN’s than XLR. That’s why I doubted to use either the Pioneer SZ Master 2 (RCA) or Booth OUT (Jack 1/4) but I guess I can use either one. The advantage of using the Booth OUt is that I can use the seperate Booth volume knob, which might come in handy.
Tomorrow I will be ordering 2 Jack TRS 1/4 tot XLR cables, so I can hook up both my speakers,just in case the gear that is provided in the venue doesn’t cut it.
THX again 🙂
March 10, 2017 at 8:22 pm #2539641Chuck Van Eekelen
ModeratorDefinitely use booth out. Being able to turn the monitors down when you don’t need them and control their volume separately from the master output is a good thing!
Booth out on the SZ is balanced Jack (TRS) I think, so the cables you are getting will work. Then again, you probably have XLR/XLR cables that you normally use already. If you are not using them to hook up your controller to the venue system, then it’s cheaper to get a couple of TSR to XLR male adapters and use your existing cables.
I am, BTW, with Caleb. Your HKs DO seem to have combo’s. You can tell by looking at the center of the input XLR. On regular XLRs there are only the three small pin holes, on combo’s there’s like a bigger (1/4″ duh!) hole in the middle that kinda connects the three smaller pin holes together. The middle hole will exactly hold a 1/4″ TSR connector.
March 10, 2017 at 9:00 pm #2539661Stephaan Vandenbroeck
ParticipantHi guys
Just checked and indeed, the input on the HK is indeed a combo, so I could buy jack to jack cables, but I somehow have more confidence in the XLR option, seems stronger and less likely to get pulled out by accident?Thx for the advice, it helped alot !
March 10, 2017 at 11:43 pm #2539671Todd Oddity
ParticipantIf your booth monitors are getting bumped around to the point of cables falling out, you’ve got WAY bigger issues going down in your booth than whether or not audio gets cut to the monitors!
Get yourself a pair of 1/4 to 1/4 inch cables and use the booth outs as others have said. That’s the exact reason they are there for.
March 11, 2017 at 8:37 am #2539741Chuck Van Eekelen
Moderator+1 on cables getting pulled out of booth monitors being symptoms of a way bigger problem.
March 11, 2017 at 12:40 pm #2539751Stephaan Vandenbroeck
Participantyow Tod and Vintage,
Damn, I should think things through more. How right you are about cables being pulled in the booth. If that happens, something strange must be going down in the booth 🙂 but I did play in some “strange” place before :p
March 13, 2017 at 11:35 am #2539991Colin Brown
ParticipantAs DJ Vintage said, the SZ has balanced jack outputs for the booth output, so I’d say the cables you have ordered are the ideal solution (balanced / TRS jack to XLR).
In my opinion XLR connectors are much more robust than jacks, and are the right tool for the job – they were designed for pro audio. Jacks are only used to save space – they were originally designed for telephone exchanges!
Jack connections are more prone to come loose and are also noisy when connecting / disconnecting, so I’d always use XLR when there is a choice.
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