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    Did 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.

    #2539471
    Caleb Grayson
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    you 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.

    #2539601

    Hi 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 🙂

    #2539641

    Definitely 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.

    #2539661

    Hi 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 !

    #2539671
    Todd Oddity
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    If 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.

    #2539741

    +1 on cables getting pulled out of booth monitors being symptoms of a way bigger problem.

    #2539751

    yow 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

    #2539991
    Colin Brown
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    As 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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